Dignity.
According to dictionary.com,
Dignity:
1.
bearing, conduct, or speech indicative of self-respect or appreciation of the formality or gravity of an occasion or situation.
2.
nobility or elevation of character; worthiness: dignity of sentiments.
3.
elevated rank, office, station, etc.
4.
relative standing; rank.
5.
a sign or token of respect: an impertinent question unworthy of the dignity of an answer.
According to Pascal Mercier,
"That there are things a person wouldn't do or allow at
any price: maybe that's what dignity consisted of. It didn't need to be moral boundaries. You could forfeit your dignity in other ways: A teacher who played the crowing cock in the variety show out of subjection. Asskissing for the sake of a career. Unbounded opportunism. Duplicity and avoiding conflict to save a marriage. Such things."
This brings to mind one question:
What would you not do or allow at any price?
There's a dilemma that I've been facing for quite awhile. I've only sourced for one opinion so far, and the source of that opinion has been quite an asshole :c
My dilemma: I have the opportunity to play with tits, real life ones, but I don't want to jump on the opportunity just because I want boobs. I'm a creep, but I don't really want to suffer with the guilt of exploiting someone that I never set out to exploit in the first place.
I'm not engaging other opinions, because I know what I must do, I know what I need to do.
I'm going to force myself into an impasse with my following declaration, and I might grow to regret it because I'm effectively rejecting hedonism, but I have to do it if not I'll accept what might come my way, and exploit the innocence presented to me. I have to write this down if not I'd turn into a monster that I don't want to see myself as.
I'm staking my dignity, and that's all that a man needs. If I lose it, I'm effectively emasculated.
Read my proclamation, be my witness.
I will not exploit any girls who are unintentionally charmed by me.
It sounds egotistic and much like a joke, but I'm fucking serious. If I don't put the effort into charming a girl, but she gets charmed anyway, she's collateral and thus should not be touched. I don't want unintentional casualties of Indiana Jones. Every shot should be an aimed shot, and if it misses the target and ends up hitting another, I'm not going to simply settle for a consolation prize. It's like if I'm aiming for a bird but I end up hitting a deer, I'm not going to pick up the deer for its meat. If it's not what I want, I won't settle for less.
I might not seem to make sense to you but that's fine as long as I make sense to myself, as long as I remember the thing I'll never do.
Because a man who can't keep his penis under control is not fit to be a man.
-- 1/20/2012 12:38:00 AM
