[metmom]

OTOH, you get people premeditadedly flying airplanes into buildings.

Yes, there is a failure to choose good over evil, but there is also the choice to do evil in that.

[Mad Dawg]

Are you suggesting that the 911 thugs said to themselves, “Let’s do something wrong.”

I think they thought they were doing good.

[Mad Dawg]

The alleged point in eudaemonism is that the evil wackos THOUGHT there was something good about flying airplanes into buildings. Their act of will was directed to what they perceived as good.

We would say they lacked Charity, Faith, Hope, Justice, and Temperance. They had enough Prudence to make it to the pilot's seat and enough Fortitude to steer the planes.

But good acts, to the extent that they arise through men, require all the virtues, including the ones that are entirely and simply gifts of God. They had none of the supernatural virtues (as we see it) and distorted versions of half of the cardinal virtues. They called evil good, and believed it. So they did it.