Posted by: Isamu
« on: March 31, 2008, 01:58:10 PM »thats why i hate my local newspaper. though. all it talks about today is how some guy successfully started a toilet building company. 2 years ago the front page would be 5 troops killed in iraq.
Posted by: vadereclipse
« on: March 31, 2008, 01:52:31 PM »lol. thanks.
Posted by: Isamu
« on: March 31, 2008, 01:07:03 PM »it's human nature. humans are pesimistic, and so foucus on the negative. papers wouldn't get sold by saying "gordon brown donates money to an orphan in africe". they do get money for "gordon brown hands money to a prostitute in soho". it's a combination of pessimistic nature, and gossip.well said
Posted by: Dane Kiet
« on: March 31, 2008, 10:44:47 AM »Affects, and I made that distinction. Hence the tax-payer money and personal cash difference.
Posted by: vadereclipse
« on: March 31, 2008, 10:27:36 AM »well, if it affects the public, they deserve to know. we all live in democracies, afterall.
Posted by: Dane Kiet
« on: March 31, 2008, 09:51:17 AM »Let's put this in perspective people. The question isn't "Do you want to know when a politician is breaking the law or committing an immoral act?" It's "Do you want to know what politicians do in their personal lives?" Do I want to know if a politician is using tax-payer money to pay a prostitute while he is married? Yes. Do I want to know if he uses his own money to pay a prostitute when he is single? No.
Posted by: Vandar T
« on: March 31, 2008, 09:17:41 AM »it's human nature. humans are pesimistic, and so foucus on the negative. papers wouldn't get sold by saying "gordon brown donates money to an orphan in africe". they do get money for "gordon brown hands money to a prostitute in soho". it's a combination of pessimistic nature, and gossip.
My words, thats what MOST of us are, but some don't, buts that a few amount.
Posted by: vadereclipse
« on: March 31, 2008, 05:12:03 AM »it's human nature. humans are pesimistic, and so foucus on the negative. papers wouldn't get sold by saying "gordon brown donates money to an orphan in africe". they do get money for "gordon brown hands money to a prostitute in soho". it's a combination of pessimistic nature, and gossip.
Posted by: aNaRcHiSt44
« on: March 31, 2008, 12:54:31 AM »We know. But what I hate is that people are defined in society by the wrong, not both right and wrong.
Posted by: grandadmiralbeck
« on: March 28, 2008, 11:54:44 PM »well for one, it's true prostitution is illegal. and doesnt he have a wife? if he does, it is adultry, technically. Not to mention, like it does show his true charecter, what he does when no ones looking. And when you become a politician, you should realize that you just cant do this kinda stuff, people are trusting that you won't. Personal lives show what kind of judgement a person has, and judgement is all to necessary for politics, even though it seems no one uses it anymore
Posted by: aNaRcHiSt44
« on: March 20, 2008, 05:23:04 AM »Indeed. Hiring a person who most likely does not want to have sexual rleations with you and then doing to her whatever you bloody well want is an act of pure cruelty. But then again, as I said, we are defined (by the Media and the general populace) through the bad deeds we commit, not the good ones.
Posted by: junot
« on: March 18, 2008, 02:33:46 AM »then you dont mess up that one time, its as simple as that. but we as humans cannot help but mess up its our nature, and there are different levels of "bad" hiring a harlot is different then going five miles over the speed limit...
Posted by: Isamu
« on: March 17, 2008, 06:21:23 PM »humans are smart on their own but stupid in groups.
Posted by: aNaRcHiSt44
« on: March 17, 2008, 05:20:44 AM »I believe that if a person is going to attest to something they should actually have some degrade of intelligence; the general populace doesnt care about the good things a person does; we are 'defined' through the bad deeds we commit. It seems that a man who has spent his entire life as a pure, non-corrupted person (celebate (just kidding), calm, kind, caring, etc) will instead be judged through one mistake such as hiring a harlot. It is foolishness, but since when have humans not been foolish?
Posted by: junot
« on: March 17, 2008, 02:04:15 AM »still, politicians need to know they will be examined, so what if the general populace doesnt follow the laws, they are not on display. hypocritical yes it is, is it right? no, but since when has the world cared about right and wrong? things happen, oh well, you dont want your dirty laundry throw across the media then dont become famous or a politician