It is helpful to have some steps for moral decision making, including: Identifying the good and bad things: You need to be honest about the good things that are stake in a given situation, as well as the possible bad things that might happen as part of, or as a result of your action or inaction. We have already identified the 'truly good' things that we hope to ultimately achieve, but the challenge comes in seeing how to realise these things in the context of particular concrete moral issues. Good things include things that are good for us such as food, oxygen, and love and also the kind of person we want to be. These latter good things are called virtues. “A virtue is an habitual and firm disposition to do the good” (CCC 1803). We have spoken about the virtue of chastity, but there are other important virtues, including justice, temperance, courage, and prudence (or wisdom), as well as faith, hope and love. So, in identifying the goods (good things, values), at stake, we might also ask about how this will make us and others more loving, just and wise. Catholic tradition also guides us in identifying the good things at stake in our moral decision-making. From a Catholic perspective tradition includes both the Bible and the teachings of the Church. We have already seen how the Catholic tradition of faith and reason reveals a great deal about what is good for us and for our communities. What is interesting is that many communities, cultures and religions actually share many common ideas about what is good for a community. Murder, for example, is universally condemned as morally wrong.