{"id":410,"date":"2010-04-09T14:22:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/tiger-woods-integrity-for-sale-cheap.html"},"modified":"2010-04-09T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:22:24","slug":"tiger-woods-integrity-for-sale-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/04\/tiger-woods-integrity-for-sale-cheap.html","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods: Integrity for sale, cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods hits bottom, digs:<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>Preach it, Favog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Tiger Woods is a wreck. His family is a bigger wreck because of Tiger’s appetite for fresh meat. And now Nike gets the perpetrator in a tabloid tragedy to trade on his sins against his wife and children — and even drags his dead father into the sewer for good measure — just so it can sell you s***.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That ad is truly grotesque. I think I’ll avoid Nike products for a while. Meanwhile, Robert Wright, nobody’s idea of a religious man or a conservative one, writes about why Tiger Woods’ moral turpitude is everybody’s business<\/a>. Basically his argument is that we reallly need monogamous marriage to make our society work, and when a prominent (therefore influential) person tramples on the sanctity of marriage, it hurts all of us. Excerpt:<\/p>\n

Though monogamous marriage may be, on average, the best way to rear children, a lifetime of monogamous fidelity isn’t natural in our species. And extramarital affairs have a way of leading, one way or another, to the dissolution of marriages — not unfailingly, by any means, but with nontrivial frequency. And even when an affair doesn’t end a marriage, it can permanently change the marriage — and child-rearing environment — for the worse.So we’re stuck with this unfortunate irony: the institution that seems to be, on average, the least bad means of rearing children is an institution that doesn’t naturally sustain itself in the absence of moral sanction — positive sanction for fidelity, negative sanction for infidelity. And negative sanction often involves sounding judgmental — something that, in addition to incurring the wrath of a columnist’s readers, raises genuinely thorny intellectual problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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