A married executive in an engineering company has a mistress on the side.
I am aware that there is nothing remotely earth-shattering about the sentence above. Affairs are very commonplace. In fact, the tale of a faithful married man is probably more newsworthy than that of a philandering man. What is remarkable about this married executive’s extramarital affair is that my friend, who works for the same company as this philanderer, has incriminating evidence of the illicit relationship. She has pictures of him and his mistress in rather, uh, compromising situations. Do not ask me how she got hold of the pictures, I honestly have no idea. What is my role in this drama then, you ask? I have been tasked to blow the lid off the married guy’s immoral activities. I am supposed to email the telltale pictures to the wife. Oh yes, you can call me Deep Throat to this philandering man’s Watergate.
My initial answer was, “Yes, of course, I’ll do it.” Why didn’t I hesitate? To tell you frankly, I thought it would just be a fun thing to do. The following day, however, I began to have reservations. I started to ask myself if blowing the lid off the affair was indeed the right thing to do. Moreover, is it moral? You see, I have a different moral compass. I do not believe in religion, nor in most of the laws that society imposes on people. I’m sorry if you disagree, but morality is relative. I absolutely believe that there is no universal, natural law that dictates what is right and what is wrong. What is unjust in one person’s eyes may be justifiable in another’s. I can point my finger at that executive and say, “You are immoral, and thus, should be punished.” But are extramarital affairs really immoral? Who’s to say that they were not the norm when humanity first came into being? It is so easy to condemn someone when he does something that is so alien to what was ingrained in our psyche when we first became aware of our existence, isn’t it? It is so effortless to believe that the right thing is what our father and mother and their forefathers told us it is. In a hundred years, though, maybe we will be proven wrong, and the philanderer will be proven right. Who knows?
The only thing that is clear to me is, if I ever pushed that Send button and emailed the evidence to the wife, it would be wrong if my only purpose for doing it was that I thought it was fun. I should have a loftier, more altruistic goal. At present, I have none. Maybe I should refrain from pressing that Send button then. Also, my new guru tells me it is none of my fucking business, so I should just keep my nose out of it.
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