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Originally Posted by Sowa
Yeah well someone gets hurt when they get laid off, called dirty names, ignored, etc... We can't send people to jail everytime someones feelings get hurt.
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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
But is adultery really just between 2 consenting adults?
I think you're leaving out the part where someone gets hurt.
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Sowa, you are dead on. If you start sending people to prison for life for what comes down to hurting someones feelings, things will degenerate very rapidly.
Even if you argue that it is worse than "hurt feelings"... say a broken heart for example, you would also have to start sending people to jail if they break up with someone who loves them.
It is all just stupidity to a level almost unimaginable.
Edit: Can you imagine the jail cell conversation?
Joe: What are you in for?
Fred: Murder. Threw my wife from our 5th storey balcony. Sucks I got caught. What are you in for?
Joe (now terrified): Uh... I had a quickie with my secretary one time while I was drunk.
(Hysterical laughing echoes throughout the prison for hours.)