What is a Million Dollars Really Worth?
I had someone hit this site looking for, “Would you sleep with me for a million dollars?” I can’t believe that people would consider this, but then again, its people we’re talking about: the anonymous mass of Internet users who don’t have to be identified and so asking such a question doesn’t come with the stigma that asking it of your friends and classmates might. The question that begs is this: What is a million dollars worth?
In our modern relativistic culture there is little value placed on sexuality within marriage, and the sanctity of marriage (sanctity being the setting aside as special) . Sex is not worth a million dollars, that cheapens it, it is invaluable. A million dollars is a lot of money, but it isn’t enough money to offset emotional scars, the fact that you’d be engaging in prostitution (see: Eliot Spitzer).
Various people have posed nude in magazines for money, taken jobs that they didn’t agree with because of a high paying salary, and of course there’s the age old televangelist schtick as well. Money is not important if it is gained in an ill gotten fashion. Having standards, focusing on the long term impact (how many women did something pornographic and then had children and were mortified that their children would find out? What about parents finding out?).
A million dollars won’t buy you happiness, love, or a long term financial state (it is just as easily lost on frivolous activities and spending). What’s a million dollars worth to you? Is it worth your dignity?
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