Should adultery be made illegal? (Now with correct poll)

Should adultery be made illegal?

  • Yes

    Votes: 40 26.7%
  • No

    Votes: 106 70.7%
  • Other (Explain)

    Votes: 4 2.7%

  • Total voters
    150
Mise said:
Is there any contract I can sign which is identical to "marriage" (by your definition at least), but which allows me to sleep around without being taken to court?


Yes, but then you wouldn't get the tax benefits and there's really no point in signing the contract for you anyways.
 
Fallen Angel Lord said:
Yes, but then you wouldn't get the tax benefits and there's really no point in signing the contract for you anyways.
Why wouldn't I get tax benefits?
 
The tax benefits are generally there for the reason of marriage and incentive for raising a family. Thats assuming the two people stay together. Alot of the tax deduction come from having dependants.

Anyways I doubt your potential spouse would sign the contract with you anyways when you add in "And I am allowed to sleep around with whomever I want after we are united".
 
Fallen Angel Lord said:
The tax benefits are generally there for the reason of marriage and incentive for raising a family. Thats assuming the two people stay together. Alot of the tax deduction come from having dependants.
What if we have kids anyway?

Anyways I doubt your potential spouse would sign the contract with you anyways when you add in "And I am allowed to sleep around with whomever I want after we are united".
Well that's for me to worry about.
 
Your going on the assumption that when you have kids and you random;y cheat on your spouse that he/she will not take some kind of legal action. Thats too far fetched of an assumption. I haven't met that many married people(in fact none) that will say that. Generally cheating on one side ruins a marriage, especially if you have kids. I don't really know of any women that would willingly let you sleep around with other women once you actually have kids and a family.

Now if you and your wife both agree and consent to your cheating and sign off on it, then your off the hook as far as I'm concerned. It should be legal if both you and your spouse agree to you having sex with other people. But see, this is reality, not fantasyland.
 
Homie said:
You wouldn't want to see her punished? She did a horrible thing to you, the whore.

No, I already told you I don't believe in punishment. I could never punish someone I love. And if I did no longer love her we would get a divorce, simple as that.
 
Lots of couples are in that situation, actually, where one of them is cheating and the other doesn't care. It's not some kind of fantasy land where people automagically get divorced if one of them cheats on the other.
 
Well, see if the other one knows and willingly accepts it, then its not really cheating, is consentual.

Cheating implies that you are doing it behind your spouses back. I've known those cases too, eventually it ends in divorce, especially if the two have kids. They may accept that in Hollywood, but for the rest of society, those relationships generally set in divorce.
 
Fallen Angel Lord said:
Have you taken a look at the documents for marriage, its pretty easily spelled out. You signed the damn contract, if you violate it, your spouse can and should drag your ass to court and sue you for severe damages.

I learnt about marital law in law school, thanks very much. And I don't live in the US so the suing for 'severe damages' doesn't apply here whatsoever.

Fallen Angel Lord said:
As for your saying you wouldn't want anything to happen to your spouse if she cheated on you, we'll see what you really think we that actually happens. Its easy to sit there and say it when it hasn't happened to you.

You don't know the faintest thing about me, so spare me your bullcrap.
 
ironduck said:
I learnt about marital law in law school, thanks very much. And I don't live in the US so the suing for 'severe damages' doesn't apply here whatsoever.



You don't know the faintest thing about me, so spare me your bullcrap.


Its not bullcrap, you can't say that until its happened to you, I could care less who you are. What you say you would do in a hypothetical situation doesn't mean crap until you've actually had to act in that situation.
 
Fallen Angel Lord said:
Its not bullcrap, you can't say that until its happened to you, I could care less who you are. What you say you would do in a hypothetical situation doesn't mean crap until you've actually had to act in that situation.

Since you don't know a damn thing about my life and I do I think I have a wee bit more knowledge about how I would react than you do.
 
ironduck said:
Since you don't know a damn thing about my life and I do I think I have a wee bit more knowledge about how I would react than you do.

I define people by their actions, not by some comment they made online. You think you would react that way, but I'm not going to take your word for that unless I see you react in that way under those circumstances.
 
Fallen Angel Lord said:
I define people by their actions, not by some comment they made online. You think you would react that way, but I'm not going to take your word for that unless I see you react in that way under those circumstances.

You hurl insults at me, insinuating that I would act like a hypocrite in the given situation. Stop trolling with personal insults and present real arguments if you have any.
 
Its not a personal insult. But I don't really believe anyone who says "this is what I would do in this hard situation". I don't really give them credit for that statement, until I see them do it in real life. That goes for myself as well.

No one is 100% sure of what they would do in a given situation until they are faced with that situation. So your arguement of what I would do in a given situation holds just as much water as my response.
 
Fallen Angel Lord said:
Its not a personal insult. But I don't really believe anyone who says "this is what I would do in this hard situation". I don't really give them credit for that statement, until I see them do it in real life. That goes for myself as well.

No one is 100% sure of what they would do in a given situation until they are faced with that situation. So your arguement of what I would do in a given situation holds just as much water as my response.

What if he already has been in that situation... knows now he reacted.... but doesn't want to tell you that???

I think he'd know better than anyone else here.
 
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