I respect your views, but people, esp. children do not live in a vacuum. When children hear adults offer the rationale that Tiger’s way is just different and that it’s okay to be monogamous, if you can, but if you can’t, it’s also okay to exercise sexual gratification whenever and wherever you feel the desire, that is a destructive message for children to receive.
Whether Tiger’s behavior impacts on me personally is not the point. But how his behavior impacts others who seek to emulate him and how his behavior has destroyed the lives of those dependent on him does concern me, because as a Christian, I care for the well being and souls of those whom I don’t even know personally as we are all God’s children. That includes Tiger, his family and even those women who were involved. Children who grow up in families with philandering parents are at a greater risk of following in those same footsteps, thus perpetuating the harm from generation to generation.
If Tiger had been abusing his children, that wouldn’t have impacted me personally either, but I damn well would have cared about it.
I, too, hope the Woods family and all those caught up in this mess are, through the grace of God, able to forgive each other and move forward.
Tiger, if he has any conscience at all, will live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life. How he deals with that is between himself and God. I do not personally wish him any ill.
This is my last post on this thread. This is what FR is all about - respectful disagreement and sharing differing viewpoints. We are not of one mind about this issue and that is okay. I’m sure we could find many areas in which we are in agreement and that is enough for me.
All the best.
I also taught my kids that message. It's the right way to live.