At some point it isn't about the (virtual) sex [View all]

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Compulsive behavior *in the face of consequences* is a very unattractive trait. Like driving home drunk from your DUI court appearance.

I take a back seat to few in not caring about the moral dimension of people's sexual amusements, assuming consenting adults. I really don't care.

And I am not even so concerned with the hypocrisy of bible-thumping pervs, which is actually quite consistent with their religion. (Many Christians are not Christians because they are so good, but because they are so riven by temptation, a state which Christianity as all about.)

But I do have qualms about people who feed millions of dollars into slot machines, who do drugs while in rehab, who shoplift from the same store where they've been caught three times already.

It's not the immorality specific to the act, but rather the monumental lack of self control and internal honesty implied. That's why the consequences angle matters. If you've just been caught and forced out of congress (and one guesses just gone through some unpleasantness with your pregnant wife, though I don't know whether they have a cyber-open relationship and thus cannot really say, of course) and you just keep right on going it suggests things about a person that really and truly are not about the sex.

If someone was paroled from a life sentence with the one requirement that they not own a gun and they head right for the gun-store, at risk of their freedom forever, it wouldn't be about the gun. It would be about a pathological irresponsability... a lack of normal actions/consequences thinking.

So yes... Weiner has me weirded out a little.

And it really isn't about the sex. I am weirded out the way I was weirded out by Bill Bennett losing millions playing slots. It isn't the gambling as a moral issue... it's the picture of a man who simply cannot stop putting money into slot machines.