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Infidelity - a Sillysophical Debate
Heaven only know what I was doing watching Sunday morning tele., but there was some Q&A programme discussing the question:
"Can you commit adultry on-line"
It was all to do with this "Second Life" forum/game (Whatever it is) and there were grown up people discussing weather indulging in "fantacy role play" could be considered as adultry. While I wasn't fully concentrating on it I followed the thread of the discussion and several people held the opinion that it was infidelity.
My reaction was to stop watching and go off and do something productive (make tea), however it stayed in my mind that this was another take on the "Thought Crime" issue, in as much that if you engauge in any activity that allows you to indulge your imagination and that process takes you to a place in your mind (or a virtual world) where you construct alternative realities or have thoughts of such then you are guilty of infidelity.
So where does that leave all of us, as we PhotoShop our way to places that show only that which we want to see and are enhanced to our way of thinking.
My final take on this sillysophical debate was to strengthen my beliefs in one of the many old sayings my granny used to come out with:-
"It matters not where a man (or woman) gains an appetite provided they dine at home"
I have a confession, in that I looked at a D700 and thought about it for a while (which was equivalent to a Bulb exposure) but in my defence I bought an E-3
I hope we continue to see the resultant images of free thinkers and those who let their imagination run wild in whatever realms gives inspiration.
As always please feel free to condem my thoughts as being the rantings of one that has spent too much time typing this when I should have been out taking pictures...
Any Thoughs
"Can you commit adultry on-line"
It was all to do with this "Second Life" forum/game (Whatever it is) and there were grown up people discussing weather indulging in "fantacy role play" could be considered as adultry. While I wasn't fully concentrating on it I followed the thread of the discussion and several people held the opinion that it was infidelity.
My reaction was to stop watching and go off and do something productive (make tea), however it stayed in my mind that this was another take on the "Thought Crime" issue, in as much that if you engauge in any activity that allows you to indulge your imagination and that process takes you to a place in your mind (or a virtual world) where you construct alternative realities or have thoughts of such then you are guilty of infidelity.
So where does that leave all of us, as we PhotoShop our way to places that show only that which we want to see and are enhanced to our way of thinking.
My final take on this sillysophical debate was to strengthen my beliefs in one of the many old sayings my granny used to come out with:-
"It matters not where a man (or woman) gains an appetite provided they dine at home"
I have a confession, in that I looked at a D700 and thought about it for a while (which was equivalent to a Bulb exposure) but in my defence I bought an E-3
I hope we continue to see the resultant images of free thinkers and those who let their imagination run wild in whatever realms gives inspiration.
As always please feel free to condem my thoughts as being the rantings of one that has spent too much time typing this when I should have been out taking pictures...
Any Thoughs
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