It would take me all day to explain each situation, but lately I've seen situations and heard stories about others that has made me question the concept of morality...right & wrong.

The Ayn Randians would say that it doesn't matter...party til you puke. "Celebrate, God Dammit!" (yes, I know that's a simplification) Then you go the other way where you must worry about everything you do because God & everyone is watching.

[Then you have dickheads like Rick Santorum who talk a good game, but are really sleezebuckets who need to be strung up by their bedoobies for their hypocracy, but that's for another time.]

The conclusion I've come up with today (and could change at any minute) is closer to the objectivists, but does veer off.

I've known a lot of sluts in my time...and the sad part is, they don't seem to be slutty around me. I get to hang with them during their less gregarious moods. Lucky me. Whether it's sex or anything else, as long as you're not hurting anyone I would say go for it. Yes, we have free will, but to choose to do things that are harmful - even to yourself - that should be the gauge of morality. The murky part is the concept of "hurting" others. To me it's not just physical or emotional harm.

Let's take sex...I've heard a lot of good things about it. If you're being safe and aren't misleading anyone then "pork away, pal." Hop from bed to bed with the frequency of a cheap ham radio. It becomes immoral when you're not protecting yourself, opening the possiblities of an STD for you and your partners. Or if you're manipulating people to get them in bed. And I still can't figure out the reason for the male-oriented facial craze.

You can say the same for greed. You want 14 yachts, a house so big it needs its own zip code and more money than the EU. Go for it, Sparky. But if you do it on the backs of others, then you suck. I would even contend that it's immoral to accumulate wealth like that when billions of others don't have basic necessities. You can call that socialist or christian, but those are just labels. We're talking about right & wrong and not the kind some high school social studies book tells you about.

Drugs...same thing. If you want / need to go around in a haze once in a while or all the time for that matter - go for it. But are you smoking your family's financial health away? Are you shooting up your kids' emotional health? That's the deal.

I guess music & other media makes an interesting connection. If you make ridiculous music or movies that glorifies violence or inappropriately uses sexuality, is that moral? Sure you have the "right" to do it, but that doesn't mean you should. And yes, parents should supervise their children and all that - but that doesn't make it moral. "That's a cop out," said the man who wrote Sexmom and Suck Off The Pope.

Rap, crap like Marilyn Manson, selling cheeseburgers with some skank washing a car...effects people in negative ways. And there is the right for those fools to do what they do, but does that mean they should. Free will goes both ways. You can choose NOT to do something, too.

Thus endeth the sermon, I guess.