I'm more of a prude than any of you!

[Drake Tungsten]

At root, I think it is unhealthy for people to act that way - it corrupts one's character. Not a great deal, but it still does.

I figure I'm too far gone to care at this point...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Agathon


Yeah, that and knowingly contributing to someone else doing it.

Well I'm a tired old virtue ethicist. At root, I think it is unhealthy for people to act that way - it corrupts one's character. Not a great deal, but it still does.

Does it matter that one was my ex and I enjoyed knowing I was ****ing up her current relationship because she was a psycho *****?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

Does it matter that one was my ex and I enjoyed knowing I was ****ing up her current relationship because she was a psycho *****?

If you like revenge. I don't or at least I think I shouldn't and I don't like it when I do.

About promises.

Trust is required for real human relationships. If other people break that trust it's bad for me; but if I break a solemn promise I'm basically making myself into a person who can't even trust himself and by my own values into someone I would hold in contempt. Who would want to be the sort of person who couldn't even believe their own utterances?

It's like lying, the more you do it, the easier and more habitual it becomes.

[molly bloom]

Ha ha, Krazyhorse, my friends in Canada told me about Les Foufounes, and I thought it was a fantastic name for a gay bar. Trust those French Canadians- once they got rid of that rural Catholic stranglehold, they certainly let rip.

Well Speer, you is a *****. I've had sexual intercourse on four continents with a variety of men, one or two married men at that, multiple races/nationalities, multiple partners simultaneously, been to several orgies, drank copious amounts of alcohol (including a date palm liqueur that still manages to instil fear in me at the thought of drinking it again) and tried some recreational drugs.

I have yet to have sex with a woman though.

[KrazyHorse]

That's why I don't break promises.

I cannot be responsible for contracts others sign.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Does it matter that one was my ex and I enjoyed knowing I was ****ing up her current relationship because she was a psycho *****?

Now you have gone up in my estimation.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
That's why I don't break promises.

I cannot be responsible for contracts others sign.

No one said you were. But do you think you should knowingly help others to break them? That is doing them a disservice.

[KrazyHorse]

Indeed. The worse other people are the easier it is to feel good about myself.

I fail to see a downside here.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Indeed. The worse other people are the easier it is to feel good about myself.

I don't buy that one. It sounds like making excuses for being bad.

[KrazyHorse]

Hmm...

How to make myself look worse here?

I flirted endless with a girl who was on a robotics team that I was mentoring (despite which she was good-looking).

I was 20, she was 17 and dating the head of the team (also 17)

She ended up breaking up with him, and dropped me a line a week later, but I never responded because I was already busy dating my current gf.

[Drake Tungsten]

Well, at least you didn't sleep with her once and then never call. You're a good man, KrazyHorse.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Agathon


I don't buy that one. It sounds like making excuses for being bad.

You have obiously not mastered doublethink yet.

Seriously, though, I feel neither good nor bad about aiding in cheating. I might feel bad if I helped to hurt the kids in her relationship or something.

That wouldn't be cool. Everything else is fair game.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Well, at least you didn't sleep with her once and then never call. You're a good man, KrazyHorse.

I was already getting some. No need to mess around.

[Drake Tungsten]

I was already getting some. No need to mess around.

A real bastard would've done it anyway, though, just because he could. You're just a big softie.

[KrazyHorse]

I admit it would be a better story, but I'm weak.