John C. Wright #fundie scifiwright.com

[My wife’s unemployment is unintentional. If things were going according to our plan, she would be working.]

You mean you are not man enough to support your own wife?

You are admitting, in effect, that you desire to take the work of putting bread on the table (work you, the man, by rights should be doing) and to toss half that work onto her frail shoulders, but circumstances merely make you unfortunately unable to carry out your plan as yet. How is shifting your burdens to your woman not crass exploitation?

The philosophy of the Left, which you seem to be supporting in this case, is not just evil, it is illogical.

That philosophy is illogical because you are required by your faith to criticize men who protect and keep their women, while at the same time keeping a woman of your own, but due to circumstances beyond your control. You have, in effect, made your ethics subservient to an external economic condition. Hypocrisy is now something that can merely happen to you, not something you select.

It is evil because it discourages love, romance, and marriage, and encourages mutual mistrust and mutual exploitation between men and women.

It discourages love because it makes the roles proper to true lovers impossible. No husband wants his beloved wife to be independent of him — as well want your soul or your beating heart to be independent of your body. But your philosophy adds selfishness and pride to the mix. By your theory man and woman must each be too proud to be completely devoted to each other. You can only devote to another the dregs in the cup of love left after your self-love has drunk its fill. One dare not love nor depend completely on another, because self-protection and self-esteem must be jealously guarded. Unfortunately, it is merely a fact of reality, something no human can change, that pride and agape are mutually exclusive.

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