Cogs can think.

Kluun is a Dutch writer. He has written two books about how he cheated on his wife, while she was dying of terminal breast cancer. Yesterday, he won an important reader’s choice award. Today he was on an important late-evening talkshow. His book is autobiographial, be it dramatised here and there.

And I hate the man. He is trying justify his actions by saying that it is easy for people under normal circumstances to do act morally correct, but that it are under stressful circumstances, like your wife dying of breast cancer, it is a lot more difficult to act morally correct. He also says he finds himself an asshole– but sure as hell does he like all the publicity and attention– you can see it radiating from his face.

He is somehow trying to make it seem as if he is normal, and that what he has done to his terminally ill wife can be done by anyone. Well, I hate to break it to you, Kluun, but you are the freak here. You are the one with the major malfunction in your character. If you think you can come up with such a lame ‘difficult circumstances’ as an excuse to fcuk other women when your wife is in bed dying, you simply lack any sense of morality– especially when you afterwards come on TV to speak about it with a shiny-happy-people face.

And no, sir, to me you cannot play the ‘you-don’t-know-what-it’s-like’ card, because me and my parents know everything of cancer and the fear of death. I’ve seen many people around me suffering and dying of cancer (uncles, aunts, grandparents, neighbours, friends) and noone around those people acted immorally in any way. They took care of the sick, dedicated their lives to make sure they’d survive, to take care of them, to comfort them, to please them. Not to bloody go and fcuk other (wo)men and party while you own goddamn wife was lying in bed, suffering, dying, with your daughter in tears. I did whatever I could do to support my mother and my father; fcuk, I’d give my own life for them. I’m not asking for a ticker-tape parade here, no, and you want to know why? Becuase that is the common behaviour. This is what normal people do.

You, are not the normal.