Tiger

On seeing the movie "Up in the Air" I was struck by the hypocrisy of our North American society. The traveling salesmen and women in the film were all avoiding commitment and "playing around" on the road. I venture to suggest that most people in our Western society, who have a job that takes them away from home, have their affairs and one night stands on the way. This seems to have become an unspoken fact of our time and something that is kept "hush hush" even though most people do it.
The movie points out clearly how such a life erodes our happiness and destroys our value system. In short, it leaves us very lonely.
I think we all know that we cannot really have the "playing around" together with the committed relationship and a trusting marriage, so we hide the part of ourselves that we are afraid of. We try to pretend that we are "good" and "moral". This veneer must not be allowed to crack or our world will fall apart (or so we think).

Tiger Woods has done nothing that most others would not do in his position. He has tried to have a marriage and a sex life on the side. Like most of us, he had a respectable veneer which cracked rather badly when the story came out. However, we have crucified him for his sins. Like Christ, maybe, he has been allowed to suffer for our transgressions. Let us stop being hypocrites and accept the man with his weaknesses. After all, he is really just a man.