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Date Posted: Thursday, January 12, 01:04:37pm
Author: Nell
Subject: Oh, absolutley (r)
In reply to: JayBee 's message, "This raises an initial question (r)" on Wednesday, January 11, 09:27:35pm

I do think that there is much in their lives that excuses and explains and contextualizes their actions so as to reduce, or in cases, eliminate any need to worry about adultery - especially as a legal problem.

I was thinking about it more as an ethical one though.

Take Michael - Elena does not know her marriage is 'fake.' To her it is real. Does Michael - not as a section operative, but as an ethical being - have any responsibility to her and her perfectly valid assumptions about the nature of her marriage? And if so, what?

And given the regularity with which section - successfully - manipulated people, inside and outside of section, using sexual betrayal or the threat of it, sexual betrayal/adultery (which is mostly how I was thinking of it I admit) also seems to exist as an emotional reality, even for section operatives - legally dead though they are.

So - to take Michael again - is it enough that it seems pretty clear, in canon, that he didn't *like* betraying his lovers sexually, even the ones he didn't love? Or is there more?

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