Beyond Sane, Beyond Humane, Beyond All Explanation

"When a human being is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge her dignity as a human being, her very act of protest confers dignity on her."

 -Bayard Rustin 

"By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man."

-Immanuel Kant

Why wouldn't Tiger Woods walk the straight and narrow after some information came out?

Days before his crash he called one girlfriend and asked her to take her name off her phone because his wife found his phone and might call. A few nights later on Thanksgiving he was still texting words of love to another girlfriend. Right up until the last minute he was lying, scheming and denying.

I guarantee Elin Woods was a tortured woman who was told lie after lie while begging for a shred of the truth she deserved, who was made deep, solemn promises, that were broken within moments, who received vows of love and commitment one minute and was covertly abused and insulted the next, and I gaurantee this happened over and over again.

I know because it is exactly the same behavior of the man who abused me and typical behavior of a serial adulterer and narcissist. I was lied to, manipulated and used right up until the very last minute, when it was beyond sane, beyond humane, beyond all explanation. 

Sometimes in a life we reach a place where nothing in the world matters, nothing, except the most basic and primal need for all human beings, the need for our worth as a human being to be acknowledged and respected.

It is so simple and requires so little, and withholding this dignity is an act so callous, that the only way the perpetrator can be described is inhumane. There are no excuses and the only explanation is a damaged, dangerous, individual.

These men don't stop abusing when any sane person would for the same reason they lie every day, because they have a reckless, careless disregard for the rights and dignity of others, and care only about themselves.