because if you do you are almost certainly dead fucking wrong, and quite possibly an idiot besides. there are as many examples as there are relationships, and trying to figure out what the hell is going on from the inside is usually impossible. from the outside? forget about it. who knows why people do things? and, of vastly more importance, what the hell business is it of random hypocritical strangers eager to indulge in some easy self-righteous condemnation, to pass judgement? and yes, hypocrites. anyone who castigates anyone else’s reasoning or motivations or whatever as far as their relationships are involved is a hypocrite, period. (of course we’re talking about situations where everyone involved is a consenting adult, which in this case specifically i think we can all agree is certainly the case; the absurd rush to an ignorant judgement seems to mostly involve WHY one or another of the parties is consenting to be a party to the relationship at all.) the louder and more indignant the castigations, the more assured the hypocrisy. there are so many examples of this dynamic, so many instances of someone publically decrying the lack of moral fortitude and/or personal dignity required to be as fine an example of a human being as the person doing the judging, that finding any number of examples to illustrate this dynamic presents zero challenge to anyone actually interested in things like honesty and dignity and the importance of conducting one’s self in an appropriate manner. which, of course, almost no one is, if the typical inane, brutally stupid reaction of the nattering classes and the bloggy clowns is any indication.
it’s none of your fucking business, so keep your nose out of it, moron. if you want to attack the governor’s own blatantly self-serving hypocrisy in going after “sex-rings” in the first place and then indulging himself, fine. in my opinion the mistake was the first move and not the second - again, we’re not talking about women being forced into slavery because they chose the wrong people to smuggle them across the border, or were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or any number of real, horrific, indefensible crimes of a similar nature that should be stomped right off the face of the earth - we’re talking about consenting adults. if the governor or your neighbor or your high school civics teacher wants to pay another consenting adult - man, woman, in between, whatever, for sex, so what?
you know, here’s a newsflash: puritanism sucks. it’s a dead end, culturally, civically, legally, period. it’s like continually insisting that the sun will rise in the west tomorrow because YOU really REALLY think it should. and you almost certainly think that because someone told you to think that. and that someone either a) has a vested interest in making you believe it, b) is clinically insane, or the most likely scenario: c) all of the above. then - and i really think this is the attractive part for the kind of people we’re discussing here - it’s time to punish punish punish! time to punish people for noticing that lunatic wishing in the face of vast amounts of undeniable evidence to the contrary, still did not come to pass. again. but hey, check back tomorrow. just don’t talk about it or mention it to the wrong people, because then it’s stake burning season. again.