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SamuraiX Posts: 102/302 |
So what are we debating, the actuality that there is a slim probability that one could be sentenced for a life in prison, or considering if this was in fact a "real" law. Considering the information given in the article, this obscure clause has been around for a long time, and no one has been convicted for adultery since 1971. I feel this is a case of the speed limit law: a marginal number of people actually follow that one cannot go over a given speed, but the norm is that it's acceptable to go 70 mph on a 60 mph highway, and the law punishes neither of these groups, but the ones who are going significantly faster than the rest. Much in the same way, I don't expect very many--if any--to be sentenced to life in prison for adultery, but I can see someone being sent for life for a crime similar to the crime that brought up all of this, a variation of prostitution. |
emcee Posts: 819/867 |
Nobody wants to send people to prison for life for adultery. It's just one poorly worded law, and another out of date unused law. |
Silvershield Posts: 540/587 |
Originally posted by JombFair enough. I understood you to mean that simply disapproving of adultery is wrong, rather than actually outlawing it. |
Jomb Posts: 437/448 |
To give someone life in prison over adultery is just plain barbaric. Really, to give anyone any jail time at all over adultery is absurd. Cheating on someone is a sickening act in my opinion, but to make it a felony is a major step backwards. The punishment for cheating should be a quick divorce and everyone thinking you are a scumbag. Unless of course both members of the relationship agreed on an open relationship, but then it would'nt be cheating I suppose. I dont think anything should be a crime without it causing actual physical harm to someone, contained a serious threat of physical harm, or caused loss/damage to property. Everything else (like lieing, adultery, insulting people, generally being a jerk, etc.) brings its own punishment when the behavior comes back to bite the person on the ass later. The sooner we as a nation break away from our national obsession with the court system the better off we'll all be. |
Silvershield Posts: 539/587 |
Originally posted by JombOut of curiosity, how do you consider the disapproval of adultery to be "backwards social thinking"? Maybe forbidding it through an actual law is overboard - well, I'd say it's definitely overboard, regardless of how reprehensible the act of adultery is - but you seem to suggest that the mere rejection of such a practice is a somehow prehistoric or puritanical notion. |
Jomb Posts: 436/448 |
Why am i not surprised by this sort of thing anymore? It just seems like we are moving backwards on most social issues in this country for a while now. |
Cirvania Posts: 1136/1181 |
In Michigan, anyway.
Link to article Originally posted by the article The offending line is this: Originally posted by Michigan's criminal law This would basically equalize cheating with rape, seeing as the consent of both parties would be irrelevant in this case. The sad thing is, I can already see this being abused by spiteful women (or men) seeking revenge against their (ex-)spouses. Although, hopefully, the Legislature of Michigan will see its absurdity and amend or eliminate the law. Discuss. |