Woman runs over philandering husband.

[KrazyHorse]

[orange]

What is so funny? Why not actually answer my posts...what is it that you find so disagreeable?

[Sava]

If you want to crusade on cracking down on crime, how about you crusade against corporate crime, eh? It costs America much more money than a bunch of adultering bungholes.

Like I told that Farah guy in my email. Adultery is only a crime in backwards, conservative, theocracies.

[KrazyHorse]

There's a reason we stopped enforcing adultery laws sometime last century, orange.

Despite which the adultery rate has remained about constant since then.

I wonder if a personal experience is interfering with your judgment on this.

[orange]

I'm not talking about the death penalty, sava

And yes, I'm quite against corporate crime. You should know my views on that are almost identical to yours.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by orange
i'm not talking about lawsuits, sava

Why should that type of thing go on without punishment as if it's completely ethical. Seems to me some big crimes find their cuase with infidelity in relationships.

Sure, it's easy enough to say: if he cheats on you, get a divorce. But most people who are cheated on don't feel as if that's redemption for the crime. No wonder it leads to backlash on a criminal scale.

The thing is, the cost of adultery is very subjective, it certainly shouldn't be a criminal issue.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by orange
What is so funny? Why not actually answer my posts...what is it that you find so disagreeable?

The thought that the morality police are going to come and get me if I diddle my neighbour's wife.

Criminalising a behaviour which half of people indulge in?

Interesting.

[Sava]

And what about people that swing? Eh? I mean, that's technically adultery. Are you going to lock them up, too? And how do you prove the act of adultery? Do you have to have a videotape of these people having sex? Where's the proof beyond a reasonable doubt? How do you prove two people had sex?

[orange]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Frogger
There's a reason we stopped enforcing adultery laws sometime last century, orange.

Despite which the adultery rate has remained about constant since then.

I wonder if a personal experience is interfering with your judgment on this.

You don't have to tiptoe around the issue. Yeah, I was cheated on twice. I know what a bad taste it leaves in your mouth, and I can certainly identify with the rage it makes you feel.

I've never acted on that rage, so I don't think there's any disagreement when it comes to her guilt or innocence - she's guitly. But at least understand that she'd probably live her whole life without committing any such crime if it wasn't for the fact that her husband was unfaithful.

Also - assigning a penalty to an act isn't always to discourage the occurance of the act. In this case it would discourage resulting acts. If murder was legal, you'd have a whole lot more vigilante justice, would you not?

[orange]

Originally posted by Sava
And what about people that swing? Eh? I mean, that's technically adultery. Are you going to lock them up, too? And how do you prove the act of adultery? Do you have to have a videotape of these people having sex? Where's the proof beyond a reasonable doubt? How do you prove two people had sex?

Same with any other crime. Yeah videotape would certainly help, but how about eyewitnesses? DNA? Anything else.

Swingers? You mean polygamy? Or just people who play the field? If there's no marriage, there's no contract...not a written one anyway. I don't see how that would apply...if the other spouse is ok with multiple partners, that should be stated in the 'contract' of marriage.

I don't know if I've necessarily decided that I feel it should be 'criminalized'...but it'd be nice to see some penalties for it besides grounds for divorce.

[Sava]

But at least understand that she'd probably live her whole life without committing any such crime if it wasn't for the fact that her husband was unfaithful

bullsh1t... if she's going to murder her husband for cheating, she's probably as likely to snap if somebody cut her off while driving. This whole excusable rage crap is stupid. You are not a stable person if you can't handle that type of situation. And she deserves the chair.

[orange]

Originally posted by DinoDoc

It's called alimony.

No ****.

PS: The jury might have let her off if she had only ran him over one time. It's when she came back around the next 5 times that she started to torpedo any real sympathy the jury might have felt for her. Having the stepdaughter in the car as well didn't help either.

Again, i don't think she's innocent. Running her over once would make it a crime, let alone doing it many times...but I think that shows that this wasn't about murdering the guy, it was about emotional backlash.

[Sava]

Originally posted by orange
Same with any other crime. Yeah videotape would certainly help, but how about eyewitnesses? DNA? Anything else.

SAME??!! are you really off your rocker buddy?

It's all heresy orange. If I rob a bank, there's proof of a crime. Money is missing. If I boink some chick other than my wife, there's no evidence of a crime unless my wife finds out. Sure, there's some mental distress involved in finding out you were cheated on. But big deal. It's part of life. Deal with it. It definitely is not a criminal act and it shouldn't be.

[KrazyHorse]

Bull****. Half of all people in this world are cheated on. No significant portion of them kills their partner.

This woman has an abnormal capacity for murder, and displayed it. Case closed.

Why not respond to my comment that adultery laws did little if anything to lower adultery rates?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by orange
No ****.

If you are going to get all defensive don't act like a dumb arse and say, "There should be penalties for adultery as well."