--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of seekliberation > Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 3:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Today's GOP Soap Opera Episode - Maddow on Sen. > John Ensign > > > I'm not a fan of either political party. But if we look at the basic > mindset > > of the parties, the one that has more of a problem with sex scandals will > > most likely be the one that is more prone to enjoyment and entertainment. > > > Seems like they are more common among the one that is more prone to > > hypocrisy, but that may be a subjective judgment. > > Not necessarily. If I look deeply into my own decisions and actions, I find > hypocrisy. But I would never cheat on my wife, I am sure of that. Not > because I avoid hypocrisy, but because my life isn't based on feeling good, > as in sexual pleasure. I do have other obsessions in life that result in > hypocrisy, and that leads to other problems, but not adultery. > Good, but never say never. It seems that swearing we would never do a thing > increases the likelihood of our doing it.
I understand where you're coming from. When we hate something so much, we have a chance of becoming it. I don't hate adulterers or look down on them. I just know it's not something I would do, kind of like smoking crack or snorting coke. I'm not going to avoid these things because I have an addiction free personality, but because i'm just not going to, and I know it. I don't say I will avoid adultery due to 'identification with faithfulness', but more so due to lack of desire for satisfaction or entertainment.
