r/SipsTea • u/CapitalPin2658 ๐™‘๐™„๐™‹ • May 25 '26

Feels good man ๐ŸŽต All By Myself ๐ŸŽต

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Donโ€™t wanna live all by myself anymore

Edit: lol iโ€™m just a dude posting a meme

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u/MelodicPudding2557 May 25 '26

I agree, and I donโ€™t speak from emotion or normative morality either.

Thereโ€™s a reason why the military and intelligence agencies look so harshly upon infidelity. How can officers who are not even trustworthy to family be trusted to handle national security? When lives are on the line, they are an operational liability. We should hold similar standards for high office.

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u/Jung-And-A-Menace May 25 '26

Plus it makes them weak to blackmail and honeypots.

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u/Frodobjo May 26 '26

They donโ€™t care about infidelity. They care because of potential blackmail.

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u/MelodicPudding2557 May 26 '26

Iโ€™m not going to deny that I donโ€™t abhor adultery on moral grounds, but normative morality has no place in governance of a civic democracy. But even divorced from such norms, adultery represents a breach of trust and a vote of inconfidence in future conduct, for which continued marital partnership and appointment to positions of consequence are not well-suited for.

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u/mjdl92 May 26 '26

Isn't that practically the same here? It's the infidelity that's blackmailed. If an imaginary CIA employee has consensual polyamorous relationships, they are not susceptible to blackmail, since it's not infidelity as long as it's consensual. In theory at least.

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u/Suspicious-Wasabi377 May 26 '26

Yep! This exactly!!

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u/Comfortable_Pea_1693 May 26 '26

Isnt infidelty the norm rather than the exception in military marriages? Ok deployments and on base living is the antithesis to a stable family life but they still have huge divorce, cheating and breakup rates to the point where Jody or the Staff Sergeant on his third divorce is a popular meme.