Woods revisited

The point in my last post about the Tiger Woods controversy was, in a word, hypocrisy. While today's mediated culture promotes the bed hopping-materialist philosophy, it has looked at Tiger Woods with disdain after that one unfortunate night. I have not changed my mind, but I've just become more optimistic.

"What's scandalous is that he has that good boy image," a friend says. Precisely. Even with fame and money, he is one of those we least expect to misbehave. So there's hope after all. We still have a sense of the objective sexual morality and get scandalized by violation. Though it's only by unexpected violation that hype is created, we still sort of know it's wrong. We're just inconsistent, with case-to-case opinions as if ethics is relative. #