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james murphy's avatar

Articulately put. But let’s cut the liberal hand-wringing crap: who cares if Phillips is briefly rich? Or if Chong ‘learned to code’? - Phillips is pitiable because a private hell eventually awaits such types. This is nothing to do with God or Judgement (with a big or little J); but with the fact that age brings remorse, resentment and regret. Atonement is not an option for human beings. We are cursed by an affinity with the truth of our own natures. Conscience is self-regulating. History shows that evil people go mad. (On a trivial note, apparently the ghastly Ron Jeremy ended up prematurely senile). Nor will it end well for Phillips. That some clueless nerd with a steady-cam made a documentary about her ‘day’ speaks volumes about our own deeply spastic dissociative moral capacity. What’s next? A Documentary about the making of a snuff movie? Will we all watch that, while stroking our chins in perplexed liberal dismay?

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Silesianus's avatar

I think everyone is taken aback, even the supposed libertines who are at the forefront of applauding such activity. There is a general recognition that one can damage yourself and people around you by degrading your own being and that there is no conceivable good that occurs. The worst thing is, it's all willing, self-inflicted damage.

Do we really have to value humanity as a quality by stripping it off someone, and seeing what wretched thing we see before us?

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