The journalist and writer Rubén Amón publishes a book about good conversation (or the lack of it and its quality) in these turbulent times of hyperconnection, cancellation and political correctness. So talking with him about capital sins (and about anything) was more than necessary: desirable.—I forgive him one sin—We can talk about them all without a problem.—Which one do you forgive easily?—Lust. I am lenient with it because I exercise it.—So I would be the one who would also apologize to myself.—If not, I would be incurring another, which is that of arrogance.—I would do double duty right from the start. —Yes, so we better be careful. But with pride we are not in danger, I am not proud.—He is free from that sin. Anyone else?—Envy is also foreign to me. I recognize the other’s merits and I am happy that they are doing well. What bothers me is that things go well for those who have no reason to do so. I can’t stand impostors. But it is not a capital sin, it is a habitual sin.—Does it bother you enough to make you incur another, anger? —I have incurred, but I fear myself enough to participate in the circumstances in which it ends up occurring. Anyway, I don’t think it’s a sin.—Would you take it off the list? —Some of the deadly sins are not even sins. It would eliminate anger, lust, gluttony and, above all, laziness. It’s not that it’s not a sin, it’s that it is a virtue. —Would you add any?—Deception and narcissism. That does seem like a capital sin to me. The biggest defect someone can have is a lack of sensitivity, which derives a lot from these narcissistic profiles. But it seems that we are talking about Pedro Sánchez!—It will be a current thing, because we have started with lust. And look at Errejón.—Note that I believe that all the moral and ethical reproaches that are being made against him are part of a lynching that does not remove him from his responsibility, but that is the result of the rules that they have imposed on society. We must be understanding with Errejón and be aware of the lynching, but also hold him responsible for having created this habitat in which he now finds himself involved. —Errejón would have incurred lust but also arrogance until he got here… —Quite a choreography, yes. The left is enormously prudish and confuses categories; from ethics to morality, from morality to political responsibility, and from political responsibility to criminal responsibility. Those are their practices: assembly justice and the sentence to civil death.—How do you deal with gluttony?—I also justify it, because it is an alternative to lust. It is to reach physical pleasure through another path.—You are very charitable with carnal sins.—Especially because I do not believe in God and the only sins that deserve atonement are those that are committed on earth and without any other intention or expectation that the pleasure. They are Epicurean sins. —Proudly a sinner.—Proudly, no. Because pride is quite close to arrogance and everything that has to do with vanity is a horrible part of the human being.—We will end up reformulating the list of capital sins.—The capital sins are more capital than sins. As with the parliamentary monarchy, what is relevant is the adjective and not the noun.
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