On 22 Jul 2008 10:29:37 -0700, aahz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Aahz Maruch) published
this:
>In article <5b4c84ta7o6ap0p15k66872ontb1umost4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Kai Jones <snippy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:56:16 -0700, Michael Rosen
>><michaelrosen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> published this:
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>>>That whole "cheating is tolerable, but polyamory is wrong" mentality
>>>weirds me out, too. It seems to me that some people have a huge
>>>emotional investment in the exact configuration of their intimate
>>>relation****ps, but none at all in their own moral integrity. It's as
if
>>>they really expect the sacrament to redeem them.
>>
>>Do you genuinely not understand their point of view?
>
>That depends what you mean by "understand". Intellectually, I can sorta
>see it, but in the end, I come back to what Michael is saying about the
>im****tance of appearances versus moral integrity.
It's really hard for me to believe that you don't have ideals you
aspire to but don't meet, because that's what the cheating monogamists
are doing, and I do it to, just not on the same subject. I mean, I
want to be a better person than I am, and I think being, for example,
honest and trustworthy, dependable and timely, generous and kind are
all good things; and yet I don't always achieve those things. Does
that make me not a person who is striving for them?
As far as excusing their own missteps, that's just a human thing.
Doesn't mean they don't still believe the ideal is worthy.
"Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue."
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Kai Jones snippy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Smartass by nurture as well as nature. Oh yeah, and I'm contrary, too.
"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill
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