In the end, Ashley Madison is simply a modification of the age old dance of trying to avoid consequences under the illusion that it’s possible.

I will suggest among other things that there is much in the way of social legislation that operates on the same principle. That consequences for both one’s actions and attitudes can be avoided. What, in the end, is abortion after all, but precisely that? What is the universal Wage that the left has been trying to move us toward? The removal of the consequences of lack of training lack of effort , lack of ambition. What is the liberalisation of the divorce process but the attempt to remove the consequences of it? Those are just a few examples.

In the end, everything has a cost. And, this data breach is a reminder of that point.