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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Dear Plato (via TGS): Yup, you have a point, old chap. But the question ain't that we do it, it's why we do it... Interesting responses.
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I think it's both, actually... both questions are hopelessly intertwined. You can't have one without the other. They are yin and yang. Kinda like a Twizzler. Except you can't tell the yin and yang apart, they both look like identical red strands of candy.
Ethics are like our identities: There is the one that we show the public; and there's the one we only let ourselves see (and occasionally someone else, when you've had too much to drink, or when you're that close to orgasm and just don't care anymore, or when you're online and you
think no one knows you). But how valid can they be, if they are different in yourself, and in everyone else, and not the same publicly as privately? Is my public ethic just a cheap toupee to cover my unethically bald head? Or is it covering my
ethically bald head, but I just don't want people to know what my real ethics look like? Are the toupee and the bald head two strands of the same Twizzler?
(By the way, I'm not bald.) (No, really.)
I'm afraid my ethics are showing. On the other hand, I think I'm exposing my ethics just to get shocked responses from the ladies. On the other hand, I don't expect the ladies to respond, because then their ethics would be exposed. On the other hand... that might not be so bad...