Society/Culture Another morals crusader crashes and burns

[Dry Rot]

What is it about these guys? How many come unstuck in their private lives?

Worth a read - sure grabbing a boob at a party isn't novel, but I liked the story of how he "unzipped his fly and unfurled his member'' to several shocked women in the Channel 9 boardroom.

Little Lord Fondle-roy
ANDREW HORNERY
December 12, 2009

Private Sydney: THE performance by morals-crusading radio star Chris Smith at his station 2GB's Christmas party involving not one but three glamorous young women has delivered him a particularly amoral dilemma.

Smith led the charge against photographer Bill Henson last year during the controversy over images of nude children. Smith's on-air tirades contributed to authorities shutting Henson's show....

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/little-lord-fondleroy-20091211-kokq.html

 

[bit_pattern]

Little Lord Fondle-roy ROFL

 

[pmad87]

Just a theory: but perhaps people with strict conservative opinions are projecting their own personalities on to the population in general. Most of them often talk about the need for guiding social rules and a strict modal code of conduct to which all must adhere. Maybe their own inability to really control themselves gives them a view of human nature that says "we need rules and order because leave it up to individual whim and there will be chaos."

 

[evo]

Good theory, pmad.

 

[DeanoT]

Hypocrisy is everywhere. Larry Flynt did a good job of unravelling any politician who dared mention the term "family values" there for a good while.

 

[Docker Clint]

It's all about deflection.

 

[skilts]

It's all about deflection.

Aye, and more often than not, it's about genuflection as well. I've always thought that an unseemly position.

 

[Chief]

Maybe their own inability to really control themselves gives them a view of human nature that says "we need rules and order because leave it up to individual whim and there will be chaos."

Everybody has that. It's human nature. Some people deal with it better than others. People like this guy pretend they have the answers when they are just as bad or worse than the rest of us.

Persecuting people for things they do at a weak point in their lives or for activities that don't match a puritan moral code is the bread and butter of these conservative loud-mouths. Yet when they come up wanting they disappear. Almost as if it was a very great shock that their own weaknesses should ever come under the spotlight.

Retelling stories of your own weaknesses and encouraging forgiveness and better systems and support is not really going to get the cranky people listening is it?

 

[Theeighthhamster]

Just a theory: but perhaps people with strict conservative opinions are projecting their own personalities on to the population in general. Most of them often talk about the need for guiding social rules and a strict modal code of conduct to which all must adhere. Maybe their own inability to really control themselves gives them a view of human nature that says "we need rules and order because leave it up to individual whim and there will be chaos."

I've always thought that about religous types who claim that gays are trying to tempt our youth into converting like it's really a tempting idea.

 

[Ruanaidh]

Just a theory: but perhaps people with strict conservative opinions are projecting their own personalities on to the population in general. Most of them often talk about the need for guiding social rules and a strict modal code of conduct to which all must adhere. Maybe their own inability to really control themselves gives them a view of human nature that says "we need rules and order because leave it up to individual whim and there will be chaos."

Jung

 

[Hodgepodge]

It never fails. Whenever you have an outspoken, intolerant, moralistic public figure, he just ends up adrift in a blizzard of cocaine. It's amusing, really.

 

[medusala]

Just a theory: but perhaps people with strict conservative opinions are projecting their own personalities on to the population in general. Most of them often talk about the need for guiding social rules and a strict modal code of conduct to which all must adhere.

Statism is no copilot of liberalism (which more often that not interacts with conservatism)

Who wants to enforce gender pay audits at this very minute? Who wants internet censorship? Who wants all IR contracts overlooked by the state regardless of what those involved want? etc etc

Dont confuse God bothering with liberalism

24/7 is a prime counter of that as is the Catholic church

 

[cancat]

Morality isn't really about doing the right thing. Evolutionarily speaking - what's the point in that? It's about being seen to do the right thing. We are all hypocrites. Just that some people get found out.

 

[evo]

Morality isn't really about doing the right thing. Evolutionarily speaking - what's the point in that? It's about being seen to do the right thing. We are all hypocrites. Just that some people get found out.

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us someone is looking."

 

[medusala]

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us someone is looking."

HLM

 

[NSWCROW]

What is it about these guys? How many come unstuck in their private lives?

Worth a read - sure grabbing a boob at a party isn't novel, but I liked the story of how he "unzipped his fly and unfurled his member'' to several shocked women in the Channel 9 boardroom.



http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/little-lord-fondleroy-20091211-kokq.html

And he kept his job lol , still at " Circle-jerk AM " spouting the same smarmy crap.

 

[King Brown]

Morality isn't really about doing the right thing. Evolutionarily speaking - what's the point in that? It's about being seen to do the right thing. We are all hypocrites. Just that some people get found out.

Evolutionarily doing the right thing by the group confers fitness to the group. If you have a genetic stake in the group (eg family/kin) then being moral is in your best interests.