>
> --- In [email protected], "Robert Gimbel"
> <babajii_99@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure what celibacy has to do with being a teacher;
> > is this a Catholic thing? or something?
>
> Theoretically, it should not matter. What might matter
> is 1) whether the teacher says one thing in public and
> does another in private, indicating a tendency to lie,
> or 2) whether the relationships with students are "clean,"
> meaning that they Do No Harm.
>
> The latter is rather difficult to assess, as are all
> actions. We kinda have to use our common sense. The True
> Believer can claim all day that the teacher "really"
> knew what he was doing and that his actions were "correct"
> on some cosmic level until he's blue in the face, but if
> on a common sense level the female student who was
> seduced by the teacher wound up having to go through
> years of intensive psychiatric care to get over it, I
> think we can safely question the "cosmic wisdom" of
> screwing around.
Nothing wrong with questioning; it's *concluding*
that could be a problem.
We can only go with our common-sense judgment, of
course, but IMHO we should leave a corner of the
mind open to the "cosmic wisdom" possibility--for
example, that the intensive psychiatric care was
beneficial to the woman in other ways than simply
getting over the trauma of the seduction.
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