If not for foibles, there'd be nothing on TV
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I had a sheltered childhood, surrounded by, at least superficially, responsible grownups. During recess, there were a few whispers on the playground about what some adults got up to, but we all thought "Surely depravity of that level only occurs in remote corners of the country, attended by some negligible percentage of the population". (Editor's note: we may have phrased it using words of fewer syllables, but the meaning was the same.)
As I proceeded through adolescence we no longer whispered, but I still held the impression that ~98% of people behaved just like my parents did, which is to say, honest and morally upstanding. My folks had some other human flaws, but they wouldn't have been unfaithful under any circumstances.
However, my naïveté came to a crashing halt upon taking my first real job. The fraction of people getting up to mischief wasn't 1 or 2 percent. It was much bigger. Maybe even a majority, I still don't know for sure. But it's a lot.
Of course, that doesn't make it right. But it sure makes it interesting.
At least it's more juicy than talking the 4% rule...
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I had a sheltered childhood, surrounded by, at least superficially, responsible grownups. During recess, there were a few whispers on the playground about what some adults got up to, but we all thought "Surely depravity of that level only occurs in remote corners of the country, attended by some negligible percentage of the population". (Editor's note: we may have phrased it using words of fewer syllables, but the meaning was the same.)
As I proceeded through adolescence we no longer whispered, but I still held the impression that ~98% of people behaved just like my parents did, which is to say, honest and morally upstanding. My folks had some other human flaws, but they wouldn't have been unfaithful under any circumstances.
However, my naïveté came to a crashing halt upon taking my first real job. The fraction of people getting up to mischief wasn't 1 or 2 percent. It was much bigger. Maybe even a majority, I still don't know for sure. But it's a lot.
Of course, that doesn't make it right. But it sure makes it interesting.