The full Britney

Adam-


It would seem to mean that we can't say anything about bad morals unless the subject is either the worst example known or we've already provided a listing of every worse incidence (vs. the version I referred to, in which we can't say anything at all unless it's the worst thing going).


Bzzzzt - sorry man, but you're not reading me - let me try again.

It has nothing to do with listing every worse incident first before being allowed to talk about the minor ones.

Nor is my contention that to bytch about something, one musy only bytch about the worstest example ever known to human kind.

My contention is that is one is going to screed about "morality," then one should at least be consistent. If one has given a pass to something egregiously immoral in the past, then one's credibility in labeling something else as "immoral" is suspect.

Just so long as you're internally consistent, then go right ahead and screed away, homie!>

Not when they supposedly claim that the bible and the Church are authoritative...


And cut it out with the "TV God" thing. If you can't take the time to type out my name, then just say "hey you.">

"My unnatural revulsion at Ms. Spears leads me to think she might be a better example of America gone wrong than any robber barons."

I agree. Ms. Spears' own very personal, moral inconsistancies reflect those of much of our society, although she does it in a much more public way than most.

She seems to be able to make anything she does dirty by endorsing it without thinking, exercising judgement, or discretion. Blindly and stupidly acting on your trendy convictions is worse than generalized apathy.

Anybody remember the sculpture "The Birth of Sean Preston"? Trying to embrace the "culture of life", she became the subject for a vulgar nude sculpture of herself giving birth. It didn't have to be vulgar, and certainly that subject could make a beautiful sculpture, but something in Ms. Spears's manner in posing profaned herself and the birth of her son. It was too self-centered, too sexual. It was, come to think of it, very similar to what she did to her family in her interview with Matt Lauer.

Our society does this. Ms. Spears is not the exception. Everyone thinks they have to have an opinion on everything, rather than prioritizing and having a few, but well thought out and accomplished, opinions and investments. We live in a world that puts pressure on being opinionated and vocal, not on being wise and careful. It takes effort and time to become wise and careful, and most of us either don't have the time or are too lazy to follow through. In fact, her behavior has some striking similarities to our President's (albeit on different issues in different ways).>