The 21st Century Badger Game

Rule #1 of the 21st Century: If it exists in digital form, it has already been shared and is beyond your control.

Corollaries to Rule #1: Live your life with the expectation anything and everything about you will eventually be made public and either --

• (A) live to the highest moral and ethical standards
• (B) possess neither shame nor pride
• (C) all of the above.

Common sense -- which admittedly is in short supply where guys' peckers are involved -- should have tipped everyone that the Ashley Madison site was not for arranging affairs but extracting money from ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray horney guys with low moral and ethical standards. They were being strung along and data mined for marketing and possibly extortion purposes. What is happening to the site's members is what was always intended to happen to the site's members, just at an accelerated pace and possibly not by those who originally intended to do it.

I have no sympathy for a person who pays money to betray a spouse or significant other in a committed relationship having that knowledge made public. That's plain old crappy behavior (the betrayal, that is, not the actual physical intimacy). A single person playing the field, or a swinger couple who engage in outside activities with mutual consent and knowledge are foolish to expect such knowledge will never come to light, but they cannot be accused of betraying a partner by sneaking around behind their backs.

My guess is Josh Duggar is being doxxed because he is the perfect bad example, a lot of guys who can't afford a lifetime of extortion payments are being doxxed in order to prove it can be done, but the choicest stooges, maybe a couple of hundred, maybe a couple of thousand guys who can afford paying appreciable extortion fees will be doing so until they die or their wives' wise up and divorce them.

Indeed, I wouldn't be surprised if many wives who value their husbands' status haven't been approached and told hubby either pays up or they pull him down...