I respect your perspective on a lot of things that you say on the forum and hell, even Urban's even though I disagree with allot he has to say. I hope neither of you have taken anything I say as a personal attack, as I know I can come off as brash at times, but I have to disagree with you. I think you are failing to put the horse before the carriage here. I myself walk with a certain precaution, when screening women, both online and off, but I try my best not to let the actions of others have any type of influence of who I am as a man and my principles. At the end of the day, I don't guess time is promised to any of us to begin with, but I strive to remain steadfast, barring unforeseen events that are out of my control. I just feel that using unreliability as a canned strategy is a bit dirty. No piece of @ss is worth compromising a man's balls over imo.
Mac, seems like you have a rigid perspective. I used too as well. Over the years, I have become greatly fluid in my thought process and approach, unencumbered by social and biblical construct entirely. Rigidity can serve you or crush you.
Do you believe in killing animals? Some may not, but, regardless, hunting is perfectably acceptable “game” to some. Where are the lines of propriety drawn: through your volition entirely—or-- through your indoctrination via social constructs?
You state, “cut your balls off" but to whom are your balls being cut? Which specific social or biblical construct did you surrender to that makes you “feel” that you are cutting off your balls?
“Sell yourself out.” To whom? To which specific construct?
Sometimes when you undergo a macro-analysis to your thinking and belief system, you can differentiate logic from indoctrination.
I serve my business clients, partners, investors, associates well because when I serve them well, they serve me well. Not because of social and biblical constructs of propriety.
I serve my friends and family well because when I serve them well, they serve me well. Not because of social and biblical constructs of propriety.
I serve hot OLD women in the same way they serve men. We’re in the same dance. Ironically, I, too, serve them well.
The universe has a way of making you reap what you sow. And within this landscape, I accept its lessons and operate fluidly, subject to change when prompted.
So your rigid landscape is unequivocal, correct? So would it be fair to assume that if ALL people are to be treated the same, then you would treat the raper of your daughter well too? This hyperbole is served with reason. Limitations are carved in every set of beliefs, regardless of their rigidity.
No belief applies universally, to all, under every circumstance. Opposing this is what we call around here, binary thinking, that is, blinded to the myriad shades of grey. The discretion of how to treat WHOM deals with both the treator and the treatee, which ultimately deals with the landscape in which both are operating. If you are oblivious of the landscape and your go-to conduct is the specific social construct with which you have been indoctrinated, without considering the participants' motives and the context in which both participants are operating from, this demonstrates not virtuosity, but a lack of sagacity and comprehensiveness.