It’s Easy If You Get No Offers
This Tiger Woods thing is quite amusing, obviously. But if it is true that he has strayed, then really it isn’t surprising. Fidelity is (relatively) easy if beautiful people aren’t offering you sex all the time. If they are, as is presumably the case with Tiger Woods, then it gets a whole lot harder.
I used to think I’d always be able to resist the temptation of illicit sex. But now I’m pretty sure that if I had offers like Tiger Woods, I’d behave exactly as he has done. The flesh is weak.
Category: Ethics, Philosophy 3 comments »
December 4th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I agree completely. The few times in my life in which I’ve been important in a minor way, among a small circle of people, the offers have increased surprisingly, disappearing completely as I return to my normal anonymity.
December 20th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Yes I quite agree. How many couples are faithful in a relationship because they have no tempting offers or even opportunities?
May 12th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
I have a lot of trouble with this excuse for infidelity. Granted, Tiger and other famous people have lotz a offers from really interesting prospects but that is a matter of perspective. Average Joes can get just as many offers, the prospects just won’t be models but neither is A. Joe Tiger Woods.
So is all the screaming about protecting the sanctity of marriage (one man, one woman) just for show, just for public purposes, when privately , fidelity ( the whole purpose of marriage, forsaking all others etc) is a joke?
Poor gay people work hard to gain the privilage of marriage, just so their partner can cheat on them?
Elin’s return or divorce of Tiger in this very public instance will say much, whether she likes it or not, about the state of marriage in society.
Why bother with marriage at all, just join the current trend of having babies by someone you call Fiance in public because “boyfriend” doesn’t carry enouph credibility, and trade up every few years for a new baby and new Fiance.
That’s what marriage has been reduced to, why bother. Maybe gays will kicking about it.