In article <sibc84h64a6a6iq8u2eoudnc5e1r4g6t6b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Kai Jones <snippy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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:
>>>>
>>>>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?
What Michael was specifically talking about is people who cheat and yet
condemn polyamory. Not just for themselves, but other people. That's
where I agree with him that moral integrity just isn't that im****tant to
the cheaters if they can't see the moral integrity in polyamory.
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