Whether sedition is a special sin distinct from other sins?

❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that sedition is not a special sin distinct from other sins. For, according to Isidore (Etym. x), "a seditious man is one who sows dissent among minds, and begets discord." Now, by provoking the commission of a sin, a man sins by no other kind of sin than that which he provoked. Therefore it seems that sedition is not a special sin distinct from discord.

❌ Objection 2 : Further, sedition denotes a kind of division. Now schism takes its name from scission, as stated above (Question [39], Article [1]). Therefore, seemingly, the sin of sedition is not distinct from that of schism.

❌ Objection 3 : Further, every special sin that is distinct from other sins, is either a capital vice, or arises from some capital vice. Now sedition is reckoned neither among the capital vices, nor among those vices which arise from them, as appears from Moral. xxxi, 45, where both kinds of vice are enumerated. Therefore sedition is not a special sin, distinct from other sins.