Not being political, but is this a Bill Clinton (or an inordinate number of high profile people) type mentality or defense?
”I didn’t inhale” or “I didn’t have sex with that woman?”
For some us, right is right, wrong is wrong.
Just venting
Well, I think there's a lot of stuff and let's be clear - men in powerful positions will almost always unfailingly find ways to abuse that power. Some abuse everyone. Some men take special joy in abusing other men and making them feel "small" while some get some sort of pleasure in abusing women.....or in taking what they feel are the "fruits" of their labor.
I don't want in any way to dismiss the previous post about the request for nude selfies, the one thing I will say (and this does not comfort me in any way) is that part of that in that case (as wrong as it is) is people coming of age and - unfortunately - it's easier now for people to give into their more primitive or evil thoughts or desires BECAUSE of things like the Internet or the phone. You don't have to go up to a woman and SAY with your own voice something deeply crude and disgusting, you can just put it in a text, which doesn't sound to the person saying it nearly as bad. Plenty of people SAY things when it's on text/internet they would NEVER say to someone's face.
Most of my friends are female. I can say with a clear conscience NEVER ONCE have I ever sent one of those Brett Favre specialties to anyone or really been tempted. In all sincerity, I'm actually afraid to be on my phone when I'm in the buff because there have been a few times when a post when up where I thought the phone was locked and each bump was doing something (I once called a buddy of mine at 3am his time.....17 times.....without knowing it. He thought I might be kidnapped and in a car trunk somewhere).
We do live in a declining standards of everything all around, but I also don't think there's anything "new" to what's happening. I'm kind of disappointed in one sense because Miles was one helluva interview and enjoyable. But I also quit worshipping humans a long time ago, particularly after Pete Rose destroyed my childhood.
Furthermore, NONE of us ALWAYS does right. I don't disagree with your concept of right is right, and if you wouldn't do it in front of your mother then it's probably not a good idea. But I also do bad and evil things, too, so there's still the conflict of "mercy vs justice."
Btw - here's another point to the whole thing: part of the problem anymore is the reality that because we live in a not just a 24/7 news cycle but now live in a live Tweet world, EVERYONE (it seems) is offended by SOMETHING all the time. And I think that particular reality causes people to be more deadened by exposure to things over and over than they should be. Because people do take offense at what in some (many maybe?) cases are usually misunderstandings or inflated in importance, we get numb to when things really are bad stuff, both the perpetrator does AND the readers.
I will confess I enjoy so many of the modern conveniences like being able to get ahold of my kid pretty much any time any day I need to...but there really was something nice about being out in the country away from everyone, too.