Kai Jones 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?
Not at all. I don't know of anyone who always reaches their own ideals.
This invalidates neither people nor ideals.
But what of someone who thinks it's okay to flout those ideals, just as
long as you lie to cover it?
> 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."
Easy virtue, cheaply bought with false coin.
Winnie said some really bright things. I don't number the hypocrisy
quote among them.
--
Michael Rosen
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