So I keep hearing that onlies are spoiled, selfish, etc. because we have all of our parents' attention growing up. Now let me ask you, while having 100% of your parents' attention 100% of the time seems like it would be fun when you're five, does it seem like it would be as much fun at 25? 35? HELL NO! Having both my parent's attention on me like laser beams at 34 (single, no kids) sucks. I have nobody to deflect the attention when I don't want it.

I also have nobody to share memories with, to talk about childhood adventures with, and when my parents are gone it will be only me left, nobody else to tell family stories with.

It's not a very ecologically-sound argument, I know, but people have kids for purely emotional reasons so that's my purely emotional argument for having another one. It's lonely, and stressful, and kind of sad. I've always wished for a sibling (an older brother, but there was nothing my parents could have done about that, even if they'd wanted to!) and I really envy my friends who have sibs.

There isn't even a hypocracy factor here. He's never claimed to be a guardian of public morals.

Ah, but he did claim to be the Attorney General for the state of New York, and while perhaps not the guardian of public morals, he is certainly the guardian of the law. From the NYTimes online today:

"As attorney general, he also had prosecuted at least two prostitution rings as head of the state’s organized crime task force.

In one such case in 2004, Mr. Spitzer spoke with revulsion and anger after announcing the arrest of 16 people for operating a high-end prostitution ring out of Staten Island.

“This was a sophisticated and lucrative operation with a multitiered management structure,” Mr. Spitzer said at the time. “It was, however, nothing more than a prostitution ring.”"

Sam Waterston's sputtering earnestness is even more attractive now. Jack McCoy for governor!

he wanted sex, he went for it with a consenting adult. Is he supposed to be perfect? Legalize prostitution now.

He's not supposed to be perfect, but he is supposed to uphold the law especially given his previous position as NY State *Attorney General*!

Sleeping with hookers in secret is hardly the equivalent of dumping tea in the harbor. If he wants to legalize it, then he should make that pitch as governor; sleeping with hookers in secret is just sleazy.

Are you implying that acts of civil disobedience go unpunished? I've seen that notion put forth many many times and don't understand where it came from. Civil disobedience is about doing something that is against the law with the full knowledge that you can be punished. Acts of civil disobedience are acts of great courage.

Oh no, that wasn't my intent at all. Indeed the point of civil disobedience is to *take* the punishment. In those instances, the crime is very public: sit-ins, passive resistance, trespassing, vandalism, etc., so that the public is made aware of the law that is in dispute and can express their outrage over the punishment and make changes to the law (at least that's the aim).

"Prostitution as vice crime" isn't exactly the Stamp Act: people aren't losing their livelihoods because they can't get their groove on, and I kind of doubt that's what Spitzer had in mind when he was slipping it to a hooker.

Although, if he'd done it on the steps Gracie Mansion, then we might have an interesting argument on our hands!

2- I don't judge his political abilities based in his sexual preferences

Do you judge his governing abilities based on his willingness to uphold the law?

I am just a dumb Canadian, so can somebody please explain what a "prostitution ring" is,

Organized crime. More than one person is involved, i.e. not just the two people conducting the immediate transaction, but more people involved in the finances of such.

what is illegal about one,

Solicitation is illegal in every state except Nevada, or maybe it's only only sometimes legal there I'm not too sure.

and what is allegedly newsworthy about the fact that somebody, even a married governor, paid money to have sex with a prostitute?

The fact that he is a) governor and b) was formerly the Attorney General of his state, and was at one point in charge of a task force combating organized crime (see the first point, above) including busting up prostitution rings

Is that worse than committing adultery with someone who is not a prostitute?

If your only job is to uphold the law? Yes.