Taming the Tiger

I think many people expect something more, some have the temerity to criticze...without first baring their own lives to us...we frankly have no way of knowing if a morally worse person is doing the judging...yet they cluck and judge...My view is simple:  I am not the judge of another, and no-one should be so arrogant to self anoint him/herself as the arbiter of human values.

Tiger Woods owes us nothing.

He owes a great deal to his wife, his Mother, his children but that is for him to resolve with those people, if he believes in God he may have a moment ahead of him that will be stunning in comparison to anything he may have experienced, forgiveness is a powerful thing.  But to the public he owes them nothing. 

None of us has a right to believe that we enjoy this man's talent any more or less because of his morals, if we do then we delude ourselves.  We do not know the private lives of public people even as the press and money hungry people try to drag us into it to make what truly can be judged by everyone as morally tawdry money.  But Tiger has given all of us who feed on his exploits, ideate about his even greater potential, more than we have given him, he owes us nothing, no explanation, no apology --no personal reform. 

Look at it this way--- we have recently had a President and Vice President who many believed deliberately misled  this nation into a war in Iraq, where hundreds of thousands died, hundreds of billions of dollars-- of our scarce resources were spent, possibly wasted...truth was owed there, by a leader with a social contract with each of us.  I say save your angst for those men who have perhaps set us on a course for decades of continuous warfare, in a country where public opinion will legally be overwhelmed by billions of dollars from war profits; used  to influence elections to elect more leaders who resort to conflict at the highest costs of life, purposefully moralized truths, and pieces of our national future.

This man, Tiger Woods,  swings golf clubs, wins trophies...he owes us nothing.