Irresponsibility has a price, and it could be huge sometimes. Dani Alves, the Brazilian football star, will readily admit that this is so. He had had a brilliant career while playing for the Spanish giant, Barcelona. In the evening of his career, he moved to PSG from 2017 to 2019 seasons. All that came crashing down when the Spanish Justice sentenced him at the end of February to four and a half years in prison for “sexual assault with penetration”. Though he argued that it was consensual, the court found other evidences to prove it was a rape case. Following his appeal, the court has agreed to let him out of jail pending the determination of the appeal. However, he has to pay a million euros as part of the conditions for his release.
Irresponsibility has a price, and it could be huge sometimes.
You can read through the Bible and find people paying prices for their irresponsibility. Noah planted a vineyard after the flood. At harvest, he had so much wine to drink that he exposed himself. Reuben behaved irresponsibly towards his father’s wife by sleeping with her. That stripped him of the rights of the firstborn. Shechem, the son of Hamor, behaved irresponsibly towards Dinah. His entire country was destroyed. The tale of woes that followed David was also because of his indiscretion to Uriah’s wife. Though acting irresponsibly can happen in any field, it seems those connected with illicit affairs carry heavier prices. There is no safe sex except in the context of marriage.
