New Clinton email controversy

[abaris]

I like it personally because it promotes the importance of good family life and gives off the idea that we want people with integrity for this sort of job.... since it is the sort of job that requires possibly having to kill ppl, etc.

Yet you know it's an archaic rule. We had similar ones in our late empire. It's all about keeping up appearances instead of real values. (Obviously I don't mean your personal situation but the rule in general) Integrity at the job got nothing to do with cheating or not cheating. It's got everything to do with doing your job properly with your private life being a private matter.

Our officers were expected to take the consequences when losing at the cards table, meaning that they had to shoot themselves or face dishonorable discharge if they couldn't pay their debts. If they promised marriage and didn't go through on their promise, dishonorable discharge was also on the table. In Germany this led to one of the most infamous careers of all time. Reinhard Heydrich fell victim to that rule and went for the SS after being sacked by the navy.

It's keeping up appearances in a field that really doesn't concern the job, since it's got nothing to do with it. Cheating on your wife or husband doesn't mean you're cheating at the job. There's lots and lots of marriages breaking apart without the ones being at fault being faulty at their jobs.