Comments on: Tiger Woods Ethics, Part II: Yes. It Matters http://ethicsalarms.com/2009/12/06/tiger-woods-ethics-part-ii-yes-it-matters/ An ethics commentary blog on current events and issues Sun, 27 May 2012 01:38:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jack Marshall http://ethicsalarms.com/2009/12/06/tiger-woods-ethics-part-ii-yes-it-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:27:24 +0000 http://ethicsalarms.com/?p=442#comment-425 “Everybody lies,” everybody cheats,” everybody drives drunk,” “everybody steals stuff”…these are all pathetic ways unethical weaklings attempt to justify and dismiss their own bad character as acceptable and requiring no change. Cynicism as a virtue. You are dead right: how dare they impugn the character of strangers?

]]> By: Jeff http://ethicsalarms.com/2009/12/06/tiger-woods-ethics-part-ii-yes-it-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:50:35 +0000 http://ethicsalarms.com/?p=442#comment-424 Once this broke, someone called into a sports show my father listens to a lot and said, “Let me tell you. Everyone cheats. Your dad cheated, your uncle cheated, your great-grandpa cheated, your mailman cheated, etc. etc.”

Two observations came to me:

1. Screw that guy for trying to lump everyone into this. It’s hard to know for sure that any man other than yourself has never cheated, but at least in theory, there had to be at least ONE man who loved his wife so much, he never even dreamed of it.

2. I’ll bet a cup of coffee that this guy is single. There’s no sense in saying something like “every man cheats” while you’re currently courting a woman. What kind of ridiculous thing to say would that be? Is there a more blatant way to broadcast that you’re untrustworthy?

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