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Slip'n'slide I normally like your posts on here but I have to admit I was a bit dissapointed with this one.
Why encourage someone to be a hypocrite and a villain. Is any piece of ass really worth sacrificing your self-respect and your diginity?
If you don't draw the line here then you can't really draw the line anywhere, if another man's girlfriend is fair game then why shouldn't your best friends sister be? Why shouldn't a prostitute be fair game?
Great point, and the ethics of pick up do deserve consideration, if only to solidify your own internal values.
I think that a best friend's sister and a prostitute are both fair game (though you had better be willing to lose your best friend, and I don't pay money for sex).
Your real concern seems to be: If you do unto others what you would not like them to do to you, how can you be morally justified?
That's a good question to bring up. I'll start with a personal anecdote, then attempt to bring it full circle to hypothetical ethics.
My longest LTR, which was a healthy, fulfilling relationship (until the end, which drove me to PU), was the most natural game I have ever used. We clicked on all cylinders, and came to each other so easily, but we were both in a relationship at the time.
We subtly flirted, escalating without cheating until the tension grew too high. We kissed once, and once that seal was broken, we were sneaking around our friends making out in the corners of Disneyland (we visited while on an overnight trip for a sport). It was fun.
I broke up with my girlfriend at the first opportunity, she broke up with her boyfriend almost a week later and we ended up dating for 2 years.
Was that cheating morally wrong? On first glance, yes, but it led to the most fulfilling relationship of my life. How can I reconcile those conflicting ideas?
I theorize that many people, especially hot girls, are in relationships for their "emotional blanket" quality. There is no genuine connection, but the man becomes a dumpster for all her emotional problems, and the sex is nice too.
When a true man of value comes, women who are in a "blanket relationship" are immediately drawn to him. He is superior to their boyfriend, and they see no moral problem with cheating.
You suggest that the man, by encouraging the girl to cheat, bears the responsibility for the sin, and loses his own integrity. I disagree.
I think that the man, by having value and presenting it, will get the girl. The guilt that she feels afterward is an expression of "I'm dating my boyfriend, but I like other guys better. Why am I still with him?"
Her dilemma there can easily be solved by breaking up with the boyfriend, because she has found that she prefers men of higher value. If she stays with him, she is being incongruent, claiming that she likes men of high value, but will stay with one with low value.
That's all her problem. The high value man accepts her decisions, if she chooses to stay with him and live with guilt, that's as justified as breaking up with him and recognizing that she doesn't want to date him.
WHAT IF IT'S YOUR GIRLFRIEND? What if my girlfriend decided I wasn't good enough and cheated on me with some dude at a club?
I don't think it would happen, but supposing it did. By cheating on me, she has said "I prefer this man over you. He is higher value." And to that I say, "Well you better go over there then." Any girl that cheats on me should end our relationship, I don't want her.
If she hides it: Well, she should feel guilty. She has made a choice by cheating, but won't stand by it congruently by leaving me. But at the same time, I have no idea. So logically, what I don't know can't hurt me, at least until I know. At the time when I know, I'll find that she was incongruent that whole time, implying that I was her first choice when in fact I was not. That would make me furious that she tried to stay with me after that act.
My argument isn't airtight here, debate is necessary to solidify my opinions. Let me know what parts aren't working and I'll clarify.