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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I decline to answer as this question strikes me as ironic. NTTAWWT.
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Heh. I was having issues because one of my guiding principles is "anyone who thinks all their mundane little principles are absolute and shouldn't ever be compromised for profit or personal benefit are morons who should probably be sterilized."
The biggies like "I shall not deny my God," "I shall not subvert Truth to satisfy the biggotry, superstitions or base desires of the ignorant," "I shall not tolerate the denial of any man's basic humanity," maybe even "killing people is bad," sure, go down fighting for those, sink into the depths with your principles around your neck by all means. But "I won't get my tits out"? Puh-leeze. You bet your ass you will for some price. As, frankly, you should. Maybe that price isn't monetary. Maybe it is. Maybe the principle "keeping my naughty bits/dirty laundry private is more important to me than providing for the heightened comfort and security of my family (unto the 5th generation instead of the 4th, perhaps, if you are talking about the difference between, say, getting $20 mil and $30 mil this year)" deserves some compromising. Unless you live in a world where chaste martyrs emerge unscathed from the flames and are bodily assumed into heaven - in which case, sticking to all one's principles in all their minutiae is more worthwhile.
Re: TM's exploitive-parent thing, I concur that one person shouldn't be permitted as a general matter to compromise the principles (known or unknown) of others. However, given the high level of purient interest the media & public has shown in that family I (being a sucker who gives the benefit of the doubt whenever possible) think there is a strong possibility that the family is trying to manage the amount of damage the media circus is going to do to them anyhow by controlling some of the publicity themselves. For instance, a family sanctioned made-for-TV movie is probably less likely to permanently scar the girl than an unauthorized movie asserting to all the world that her religion and the traditions of her family made her a doormat and her abduction was therefor all their and her own fault - an opinion I think we've all heard around here from time to time.
