Friday May 16 2008
All times are London time
In my Financial Times column this week, I return to the compelling topic of Eliot Spitzer. I have nothing here to say about prostitution; instead, I argue that crusading populists rarely achieve what they promise in office. You can read it here and please comment below.
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“Eliot spitzer: if legal avenues for discreet-sex existed, this immeasurable loss would not have occurred”
IF methods existed in New York and in similar-law U.S. + other countries’ jurisdictions for adult males- and most relivant: politicians and persons in public-service- to ‘privately pursue’ their un-remove-able and to-be-expected traits, Mr Spitzer & the many, many others like him- and all of his/their abilities, irreplaceable capacities and potential to-do-good, would not have been lost…
The ‘big (and even the less patronized) news media’ generally, would do well to examine the underlying factors behind the easily- and on balance- productively-avoidable Spitzer catastrophe…
It needs to be questioned whether the immense loss to society of this person and all of his exceptionally effective, constructive and fairness-in-society-building attributes and capabilities is a ‘fair swap’ for him being susceptible to- or falling for- what adult males have done since human kind first set foot on this earth…
“would society be better served if adult males generally, and most importantly- persons in public service, such as politicians, were able to ‘act on their unavoidable sexual urges’ out of the public-view”??
Expecting men to be fully-faithful to their partners/wives is unrealistic.
Fidelity is an objective to be aimed for… but, just like expecting male Catholic priests to be celibate or to not masturbate- it ain’t going to happen…
Politically ‘killing’ or wrecking the lives of those that stray from full-fidelity will always cause far more loss to societies than if persons/societies affected (by acts of infidelity) reacted to this with discrete- albeit disgusted and/or heavily scolded- reasoned accommodations…
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Posted by: Roderick V. Louis | March 13th, 2008 at 3:53 am | Report this commentRoderick V. Louis,
near Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
rvlouis@patientempowermentsociety.com
At first I wanted to be sad. But the entire piece struck a bloodcord and caused me to laugh at your brillance. Nice. Very nicely done. Even the counting; the right boots; and the dress attire at ringside. I say ole chap, would you happen to have some grey poupon?
Posted by: Emanuel McCray | March 16th, 2008 at 1:21 am | Report this commentEmanuel McCray
http:www.emccray.com