Then I guess we should take a few others out too. Let's see, just off the top of my head... JFK, Roosevelt, Almost any sport super star that has used performance enhancing drugs, from all sports and all high achievers. Mickey Mantle was an alcoholic, Babe Ruth too. We either have to accept that even though they are somehow looked upon as special, they are first and foremost human beings. We need to stop having all these double standards. Tigers DUI is public mostly because of his fame. The others we don't hear about, and for the first time the explanation really did seem to make sense, not ego driven. Look at the moral mess we have in Washington. We tend to be particular at who we point fingers of shame at while letting others skate right on by.
I'll point you to the Naked Communist.
What is interesting about the anti-moralists, is that the factions they create, institute ideologues far more interested in their own moralities than the general society.
Take, for example, women more concerned about cheating. "Tiger is awful, because he cheated! He is morally bankrupt!" And, yet, when challenged, the same person can't fathom that people she may (or may not) idolize as positive social role models...also cheated.
And, she gets offended when this is pointed out...because, only the black/asian golf player is evil, not JFK...or BILL CLINTON...those were GREAT MEN!
(facepalms)
And, this is where you get into Bell Hooks level of social dissection. Where men, in and of themselves, and society as a whole is the victim of "toxic masculinity"...
It's all communist nonsense. The sort of thing that is fun to talk about over drinks, but should be relegated to just that, as it is obviously intellectually lazy, but emotionally gratifying at a near religious level...for a society that has, largely, turned away from organized religion.
The interesting thing is that communism....has to market itself as the worth of the individual, whilst the system in practice discourages it. And yet, capitalism...has to market to the whole...the "market"...whilst as a system, empowers the individual.
But, this isn't the thread for Friedman, I suppose...
