Look. I know porn is an addiction that really messes guys up. Hurts marriages. Hurts children. It’s bad. And I don’t see how it’s going to get better anytime soon when every fetish you could conceive is a .com away. And this is something we should all think and pray seriously about.

But…

Sometimes you just have to allow yourself to say “wow” at a guy. I mean, this guy was a government employee who got busted for surfing porn on the internet. Not just a little, mind you. This senior executive spent 331 days looking at porn. You’d think that if you got caught doing something like that you’d either scurry off, change your name, grow a beard and never return or go to confession and then some kind of therapy.

But not this guy. He harumphed in indignation that this kind of thing should be questioned at all.

The Washington Times reports:

For instance, one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.

When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official’s porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.

“He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that,” investigators wrote in a memo.

Wow. I mean. Wow. That’s some brilliant excuse making.

It changes the whole dynamic from self gratification to helping out poor families in third world countries. It’s like what Sally Struthers does but…well let’s just leave that alone.

I have to wonder if people like this somehow convince themselves of these rationalizations or do they know they’re just throwing smoke. I have to hope they know they’re lying because that at least recognizes some fault in themselves that they’re attempting to conceal. If it’s the former, it’s a long road back.