People need to understand that what I do at home and what I do at work needn't overlap.
The problem is they often do unavoidably, at least for certain specific professions.
Imagine a Preacher/priest/etc involved in a major moral scandal regarding his major. He would lose moral authority in his congregation. Even just being known to get wildly drunk and play Mario Kart on Saturday is likely to affect his ability to provide the leadership he must. The same applies, in slightly different ways, to senior military officers.
On the other hand, if I find out that one of my programmers is doing substantial hobby programming, I would certainly see that as a positive. Not because it directly affects what he does at work now, but because it will almost certainly make him a superior programmer in the long run.
You can, and should, separate them to a degree, but especially for public facting positions you cannot and should not try to create an absolute separation.
In the first instance though the events you list are not unrelated to the profession - they are linked and reasonably so. If someone stands up in the pulpet on Sunday and tells me about the evils of drink and adultery and then promptly disappears to get wasted and have sex with a married woman then that absolutely should impact his moral authority.
Some positions come with expectations that are entirely reasonable - medicine, most religious posts, teaching and so on.
The point is that minor, cosmetic and irrelevant indiscretions will come to be accepted, not just any behaviour.
The problem is they often do unavoidably, at least for certain specific professions.
Imagine a Preacher/priest/etc involved in a major moral scandal regarding his major. He would lose moral authority in his congregation. Even just being known to get wildly drunk and play Mario Kart on Saturday is likely to affect his ability to provide the leadership he must. The same applies, in slightly different ways, to senior military officers.
On the other hand, if I find out that one of my programmers is doing substantial hobby programming, I would certainly see that as a positive. Not because it directly affects what he does at work now, but because it will almost certainly make him a superior programmer in the long run.
You can, and should, separate them to a degree, but especially for public facting positions you cannot and should not try to create an absolute separation.