What someone might think

[Ricardo]

Ah, no. there is no way to be consistent. Unless you start picking and choosing what Mitzvot to ignore and which to follow.

Look at the games the ultra-orthodox Jews play with the rules: Oven timers so they don't have to press buttons or turn knobs during the Sabath. Same with motion sensor switches to control the lights and even elevators that stop at every floor for hospitals in Jewish quarters.

The Amish also have some peculiar traditions in order to survive supposedly without modern technology.

"Check everything out, keep the good stuff" would seem to be a reasonable way to go. Some people should refrain from any and all movies. Most of us can keep separate what reality is.

Today's blog entry is about Dating rules in Christian colleges. Most of us who were subjected to these rules can tell you that holding hands, or even simply looking at each other can be as erotic or as lascivious as we want it to be. No amount of chaperones or rules can prevent this.

Some of us became exceedingly good at doing exactly as we wanted, while complying with the letter of the law, or, to finally get to the point of this thread, to satisfy "what someone might think."

I think part of what got us out of Fundyland was precisely our unwillingness to continue playing this game.