The Ashley Madison Hack

gabriel1980

I'm sure many of you have heard about the Ashley Madison hack (you know the website that helps you have an affair). I can't help but feel kinda sorry for the poor folks on that site. They going to get outed by a malicious group of hackers and all they wanted was a little fun. I mean an affair that isn't found out, is great fun and both parties are obviously agreeing to it, it can make both people very happy. All Ashley Madison is doing is attempting to make it easier to have an affair and to make it easier keeping it discreet, but that's been shattered now.

Fireflyaway

People will always have affairs website or no website. What I think is immoral is that people are making a lot of money out of this website. Money out of other peoples potential heartbreak.

People lose mums and dads as a result of affairs. People kill themselves as a result of affairs. Its not just harmless 'fun'.

I hope the hackers do go ahead because if my husband were using the site I would rather know and act accordingly than live a lie.

ecgirl07

I think if you are going on an internet hacking moral crusade there would be better places to start than that site.

Georgiegirl256

Good. Why should they be grated any anonymity? If someone isn't happy in their relationship and feels they have to go and look elsewhere, then they should at least have the courage to end their current relationship first. It's called having your cake and eating it, and basically it's cowardly.

Anyone who frequents these scummy sites deserves to have their details leaked.

Feel sorry for the "poor folks"....don't make me laugh!

ognum

gabriel1980 wrote: »

I'm sure many of you have heard about the Ashley Madison hack (you know the website that helps you have an affair). I can't help but feel kinda sorry for the poor folks on that site. They going to get outed by a malicious group of hackers and all they wanted was a little fun. I mean an affair that isn't found out, is great fun and both parties are obviously agreeing to it, it can make both people very happy. All Ashley Madison is doing is attempting to make it easier to have an affair and to make it easier keeping it discreet, but that's been shattered now.

IF the people registered to the site have been honest with their current partners then they have nothing to worry about. If they are doing nothing wrong they don't need to hide anything, do they?

After following you advice on another thread about deceit your threshold for approval of deceiving others is clearly very high.

There are more than two people involved in an affair, there are all the others it effects too.

It's always interesting, are you a troll?

Cuilean

Go on then, I'll bite.

Having affair is not "fun". I definitely don't think it's morally right to give people the means to cheat on their partners either, let alone charge for the privilege - that's facilitating an affair, making it easier for people to cheat and meet people who are as ethically compromised as those seeking "fun" in the first place.

If you're having an affair, you're clearly unhappy with your relationship. Do the right thing and be honest with your partner - get counselling and work it out, or leave and start afresh. If you're grown up enough to have a committed relationship, you should behave like an adult and show your partner some respect. There are about to be an awful lot of heartbroken, unknowing people out there.

Lying and cheating is never going to end well. It just so happens in this case that it's ended badly for Ashley Madison and its sneaky customers. Karma's always going to come around and bite you. Boo hoo.

I don't condone hacking or holding people to ransom either, for reference. Nobody comes out of this looking good. No winners here.

fairy_lights

gabriel1980 wrote: »

I mean an affair that isn't found out, is great fun and both parties are obviously agreeing to it, it can make both people very happy.

An affair that isn't found out means that the person cheating is living a lie and deceiving their spouse. The cheaters might be happy but their actions are ones that will cause a great deal of unhappiness to other people. Personally I think the people who use Ashley Madison deserve everything they get when they get found out, but I think it's a terrible way for their loved ones to find out.

PeacefulWaters

gabriel1980 wrote: »

I'm sure many of you have heard about the Ashley Madison hack (you know the website that helps you have an affair). I can't help but feel kinda sorry for the poor folks on that site. They going to get outed by a malicious group of hackers and all they wanted was a little fun. I mean an affair that isn't found out, is great fun and both parties are obviously agreeing to it, it can make both people very happy. All Ashley Madison is doing is attempting to make it easier to have an affair and to make it easier keeping it discreet, but that's been shattered now.

Affairs that aren't discovered still damage the primary relationship.

Getting yourself trapped in an affair isn't "fun".

System

A website that helps you have an affair?:eek:

Whatever next.

Who in the right mind would register on a website because you want/are having an affair? I thought that sort of thing was done in private.

I must be living on a different planet to everyone else.

gabriel1980

There's usually a reason for an affair to be conducted. Unhappiness, being treated badly, or not noticed anymore. If your self-worth, confidence and self-esteem are suffering then I think having an affair with someone who does desire you is not as awful as it seems.


Say your spouse found out and realised, hold on, I'm angry and upset, but my partner is desirable, why don't I find him desirable anymore? Maybe they still do, but have forgotten to show you.


Maybe you're trapped in a relationship through financial issues or even abuse, an affair could be a means out. Just don't be so quick to judge people who have affairs. There's sometimes more than the expected reason.

PeacefulWaters

gabriel1980 wrote: »

There's usually a reason for an affair to be conducted. Unhappiness, being treated badly, or not noticed anymore. If your self-worth, confidence and self-esteem are suffering then I think having an affair with someone who does desire you is not as awful as it seems.


Say your spouse found out and realised, hold on, I'm angry and upset, but my partner is desirable, why don't I find him desirable anymore? Maybe they still do, but have forgotten to show you.


Maybe you're trapped in a relationship through financial issues or even abuse, an affair could be a means out. Just don't be so quick to judge people who have affairs. There's sometimes more than the expected reason.

Still doesn't justify betrayal though.