Nah, its not important.. You just misunderstood what I said and than used the simplest way of responding to it, rather than responding to what I actually said. Not important, I had a long day at work, dont want to cycle back in last posts and show you the context. Sorry.
That's a cop out.
What I'll do is assume you refuse to formulate the response because you are
incapable of formulating it, not because you are
unwilling to formulate it.
So you agree adultery must be prevented by the extent the state can prevent it? by criminalizing it? not just to prevent adultery but all the destructive behaviour and results that follow?
Of course not.
If the fact that those destructive behaviors are ALREADY crimes in and of themselves is not enough to prevent them, how does making something else a crime prevent them?
And since we're already on the topic, if the fact that these things are crimes does not prevent these crimes, what makes you think they will prevent adultery? And even if it prevents X amount of instances, how can you be sure that it would prevent even a single instance that would eventually lead to these destructive behaviors?
Lets say 1% of adultery cases end up with these destructive behaviors you speak of.
Now lets say that making adultery a crime would prevent 96% of all the adultery cases in a society.
that STILL doesn't mean that a single violent crime would be prevented, even if we assume the adultery not occurring would have prevented the crime because hypothetically, every single instance of destructive behavior, violence or murder, could fall within that 4% of unpreventable adultery cases.
You are trying to argue for a hypothetical you can't even be sure would occur without a single shred of evidence to suggest it even would have teh rates of efficacy I suggested in my example above.
If anything, it probably wouldn't have an effect at
all because people who cheat don't THINK about the ramifications as evidenced by the fact that cheating in and of itself assumes that you won;t get caught because there are ALREADY ramifications that exist.
In order to prove that making adultery a criminal offense would prevent murder and violence against adulterers, you must FIRT show that it woudl prevent adultery.
Have at it. I anxiously await some EVIDENCE of this view.
Because all you've given so far is your opinion of how you HOPE it would work.
But as the old saying goes, hope in one hand **** in the other and see which one fills up faster.
