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Originally Posted by pigglet
FTA: First, please answer the first part. If you think that lying on a resume is wrong, then we agree. Do you feel that the way that a politican represents himself in his/her campaign is similar to a resume in the public eye?
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Lying on a resume is wrong. But putting questions about one's sex life on a resume would be the greater wrong, in my view. (
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How is hypocracy in someone personal life not going to affect their public decisions?
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I could see how it
might, but not at all how it
must. People are perfectly capable of behaving differently in different contexts.
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If nothing else, they are ripe for blackmail.
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So are the closeted ones who
don't make sexual orientation an issue. Should we out them as well?
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At best, they have pyschological issues that will certainly affect their public/political stance.
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Ugh... it's perfectly
possible that this is the case, but you can look back on my exchange with willravel to see why I won't take it for granted.
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Where do you fall on the bigger picture. Is there any private action a person could take, where they pursue a diametically opposed public political agenda, where you would feel there private hypocracy was relevant?
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Sure. Unlawful actions, for one.
But I'm guessing you mean in the realm of the lawful. Well... any inactions from which the politician falsely claimed to gain relevant experience. It's pushing it, but the whole swiftboat thing if true
might maybe fit here as an example (though, to be honest, I didn't care much about it). But as a contrived-yet-better made-up example, a politician that pushed his ability to pass the bar exam all on his own, despite his actual use of twelve Ivy League-bred tutors, should probably be exposed. He's making the claim that he can handle a big load and citing a fictional account as a basis. That's fair game, it throws a relevant claim into doubt. Unless, of course, he backed it up just as well with a couple of true episodes... then I'd tend to regard it as irrelevant once again. More later, if you want... though that was rambling enough, methinks.
Show me the effect of the private hypocrisy on the politics. "How does it
not effect it?" doesn't cut it.