Infidelity

This topic is somewhat different to the previous blogs I have posted, namely as the subject is a little different. I think that there can be little doubting that he or she who commits this action is indeed 'being bad'. I say this as infidelity is an action that does indeed hurt other people, which is something that almost unequivocally is being very bad. Most often of course this is emotional pain, and can be very severe. Here we should adapt a pragmatic approach, as if infidelity is bad or in itself does not alter the effect that it produces upon the innocent party. I hold in high regard the beliefs espoused in On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill, and expound on them here. Although Mill does not say this, largley as it is outside the scope of this work, anyone who harms another individual by their action can be considered 'being bad'. For unlike other issues, an individual does not posses sovereignty over other people, as they do themself. It i9s the very action of intruding upon someone else's liberty, and the ensuing pain it inflicts, that makes this action being bad.