Article — Konings, Theologia Moralis
ARTICLE III: ON UNJUST COOPERATION
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Cooperation toward the damage of a neighbor can be done in nine ways, of which the first six are positive, the three latter negative. All are contained in the following verses:
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Command, counsel, consent, flatterer, recourse,
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Participating, silent, not preventing, not manifesting.
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That cooperation may induce the obligation of restitution, it must, like any damaging, be unjust, the efficacious cause of damage and indeed certainly such, and theologically culpable (n. 746). Hence he who influences only the mode of inflicting damage is bound to restore only insofar as that mode was harmful to another, or was the certainly efficacious cause of damage. Cf. n. 764. q. 4° and Mar. p. 278. n. 79, 80.