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Hmm, tell my boys and my extended family that my wife's adultery was only a breach of a contract: "Oh, mommy broke a strictly legal contract and has absolutely no effect on you at all, in anyway what-so-ever".
While this is sad, and I truly do feel for you and your family. I wish you the best in this regard.
But unfortunately it really means absolutely nothing in regards to the law, which is what the point I made pertains to.
Never mind the credible research demonstrating that children are worse off in single parent homes. Never mind that statistics showing that they are more likely to be abused sexually, physically and emotionally by mommy’s boyfriends.
This has nothing to do with adultery. It relates to divorce. Are you arguing for criminalizing divorce?
No no, Tucker says none of this exists, so it must be true because he said so; and Tucker is always right, just ask him, he'll tell you.
I can cite numerous posts of mine where I admit that I have made an error and retracted an argument. If someone can show me logically or legally the stance I hold is incorrect, I do this all the time.
Most recently I made this type of retraction with Sir Loin in an argument about Rush Limbaugh.
I'm not sure where this particular comment is coming from, Jerry. Can you please explain it to me?
Adultery destroys the family, the destruction of the family harms everyone immediately involved directly and society by proxy and that is why it is wrong.
So does my example of verbal abuse. And a child is more likely to be aware of one spouse acting in a verbally abusing manner than they would be of infidelity because they are much more likely to directly witness verbal abuse.
It's not my morality; it's not your morality, its objective truth which, yes, does actually exist.
Lets assume this is true.
How is adultery worse than verbally denigrating one's spouse (which is legal)? They have similar ramifications, they both destroy the family etc.
Although there is one REMARKABLE difference between the two.
Although adultery is a purely selfish behavior, it is typically not a malicious behavior committed with the intent to cause harm. Whereas verbal abuse is ALWAYS a malicious behavior meant to inflict HARM on the other person.
Why is it that adultery, a non-malicious act, which indeed has victims, but only incidental victims, is being treated as though it is worse than a malicious act that has a direct and intended victims as well as incidental victims.
Common sense indicates that malicious actions are worse than non-malicious actions.
The discussion here is not "Is adultery a bad thing" it's should it be a criminal offense. Obviously when I make a comment in this context, I make it in the legal sense. i.e. "Legally speaking, Adultery is simply a breech of contract. No more, no less."
I didn't necessarily place the term "Legally speaking" into my post since I gathered that it would be assumed by those who read the post since the topic of the thread, the arguments made in that post, and the comments I made regarding the immorality of adultery as well as the comparison to verbal abuse would suggest that the legal sense is what I meant by the comment.
I'm sorry I didn't make it clearer for you.
Your argument is born of gross ignorance and utter denial of documented facts. I can't address it comprehensively as I would have to start with basic sociological concepts which I neither have the time or patents to type nor the casual reader to digest.
How unfortunate that you refuse to make a case to support your claims. If I am ignorant then, please, educate me.
You couldn't be more wrong, Tucker. Adultery is so much more than a simple breach of a contract.
Not legally speaking, which was my point. Which is why I made the comparison to an equally vile and disgusting action that is actually protected by the first amendment.
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