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Spitzer’s stupidity and our national hypocrisy

Posted by Trevor in under other on Mar 12th, 2008 | View Comments |

As a nation, we are morally hypocritical slaves to religion.

I hold no love for Eliot Spitzer. In fact, I’m glad he is being forced to resign. However, his use of prostitutes in and of itself is not a valid reason to force him out. I don’t know why he felt he needed the service of prostitutes.I don’t know how his family feels about his wandering penis (although I can guess). Prostitution should be legal. It is a consensual activity between adults. Punishing Spitzer for being a hypocrite and perhaps a thief sounds dandy though. Any public servant who can afford a $35,000 hooker is a thief.

Our national dialogue on this issue is puerile because half the conversation is produced by blowhards who are willing to judge others while they themselves are doing dishonest backroom deals, ignoring their wives and children and generally leading lives filled with deceit, manipulation and powermongering. Meanwhile, if a lonely ugly man wants female companionship and is willing to pay a willing pretty adult women for that companionship he must also be willing to risk his good name. He must be willing to risk jail and the loss of his rights. She must as well. All because of the moral police who are so willing to speak on behalf of what God wants the rest of us to be forced to do or not do.

The next time I want to buy beer on Sunday and I can’t I’ll remember it is because of hypocrites like Eliot Spitzer. The next time I want to gamble online and I can’t I’ll laugh at the downfall of windbags and parasites like Eliot Spitzer. The next time I pass by a monument to some public figure I’ll wonder if they were a stupid jerkoff who feeds on the public tit like Eliot Spitzer. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Next time you’re thinking about lecturing an adult about his or her choices, remember Eliot Spitzer and make sure you aren’t worthy of your own little lecture before you start the lip flapping. People resent holier-than-thou types and love to see them fall down and go boom boom. Bye Eliot. Can’t say I’ll miss your ugly mug.

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Mr Bob

I know it really helps you feel better to put people like Spitzer as a representative of people who believe immoral behavior (of some kinds) should be illegal.

The fact is he is an anomoly, not the norm....although I guess you could make the argument he might be the norm among politicians.
Trevor

Death isn't as interesting as sex to most people.

That's the bottom line Oliver. That's why government continues to grow.
Oliver

I agree with you, although Gringo_malo makes good points. The thing that bugs me the most is that you can lie about WMD, destroy CIA tapes, etc... but this doesn't seem as important as paying hookers.
Gringo_Malo

I took a bit of a different tack on the Spitzer affair.

With or without religion, we'll need to have some sort of moral code, i.e., some set of rules for dealing with one another. All laws reflect somebody's idea of morality. One reason for the laws against prostitution is that some of the women might not be free agents in a free market. Another is that middle class women don't want hookers parading in front of their homes and disparaging them while soliciting their husbands.

Back in the 90s, adultery and fornication were Class B misdemeanors in D.C. and most states. Since then, most state criminal codes have been Clintonized to the extent that adultery and fornication are no longer criminal offenses. (I'm not sure about perjury, but I think it's still a felony. :) Perhaps state criminal codes will be Spitzerized in the wake of this affair.

Then again, the Supreme Court might legalize prostitution. In the 2003 Texas v. Lawrence case, the Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees a right to sodomy. It certainly came as a surprise to most people I know. Leno quipped that twenty years in the future sodomy will be mandatory. It was funny, but I'm afraid it's true.