Adultery: a crime

[Khaled]

a few weeks ago, there was a thread about honor killing,
honor killing used to be in effect in Lebanon, but i was talking to a criminologist yesterday,
i was told the law was replaced by a new one:

the new law considers adultery a crime, and it's punishable 1 month to a year for men and 3 months to 2 years for women.

the law is stupid and sexist, but in my opinion, it's better than honor killings.

what do u think?

 

[not really ken]

honour killing irrational!
this law irrational!

 

[Pacaveli-T]

i like that its considered a crime but to consider jail time is a little severe and especially that women get more considering women dont have as high a % of infedelity and i think the reason they might have done that is because they might think more jail time for them will "teach them not to do it again" either way i dont really know how the states or canada will take this law if it was brought here i think 65% of them will spend their time in jail if this became a law here.

 

[not really ken]

i think 65% of them will spend their time in jail if this became a law here.

what would you suggest as a 'punishment'?

 

[Pacaveli-T]

what would you suggest as a 'punishment'?

ppl here wouldnt take kind to it and seeing guilt doesnt work much anymore and revenge is low i wouldnt know really..guess there shouldnt be a law period.

 

[H.B.]

The law is ridiculous. Expecially since woman have harsher punishments than men. And I think its safe to say that if it conisdered worse for a women to commit adultery than a man, then most men will not serve any jail time for their crime, and women will almost always get the maximum or sentence or at least near it.

Like Khaled said, this law is sexist and stupid.

 

[Silleone]

its stupid

 

[Pacaveli-T]

its stupid

gee i wonder why.. you'd be in jail all you life then.... :thumb:

 

[Luv4Pac4Ever]

Jail time for committing adultery? It's ridiculous. The prison population would really be out of control then because the majority of married people nowadays commit adultery at some point in their marriage. If adultery becomes a crime, the already slow court system would become even more slow trying stupid cases like this. Adultery is already morally wrong and one of the Ten Commandments so if you believe in God and believe that you're punished for breaking those commandments, then you're gonna pay for your sins anyway. So why further screw up an already screwed up system by adding something like this?

 

[Illuminattile]

Is marriage a legally binding contract?

Can we make breaking promises a crime?

 

[Silleone]

gee i wonder why.. you'd be in jail all you life then.... :thumb:

whatever

anyway back on topic, its stupid, adultry cant be considerd a crime, if this law was in place, nearly everyone would be in jail.

 

[Valeoz]

Its already a law in the US, but I believe the law goes deeper than being married and cheating.

I think it is just having more than one wife or husband, because I know a man who got arrested for having 4 wives, the funny thing was that they were all living together. The man got charged with adultery.

 

[Illuminattile]

Its already a law in the US, but I believe the law goes deeper than being married and cheating.

I think it is just having more than one wife or husband, because I know a man who got arrested for having 4 wives, the funny thing was that they were all living together. The man got charged with adultery.

That would be be bigamy, surely?

In some US States adultery is still a crime, but it's rarely if ever enforced.

 

[Valeoz]

Bigamy? Possibly.

I actually saw this on TV years ago. The man should of been charged with bigamy or maybe he was. But I'm positive he was charged with adultery.

 

[Pacaveli-T]

whatever....bitch:thumb:

i'll remember that sill thx a lot.

 

[Amara]

the law is stupid and sexist, but in my opinion, it's better than honor killings.

what do u think?

When pitted against honor killing, it does seem that it is somewhat of a step in the right direction. Imprisonment > Violent Death. There is always justification on account of the 'harm principle' to almost dodge the moral foundation of the law. Adultery is damaging to the familial structure and stability that societies seek to maintain. That does not mean I feel it is right to punnish, but in some sense, it is understandable that others would.

Is marriage a legally binding contract?

Can we make breaking promises a crime?

It is a legally binding contract in some countries depending on whether it is a civil or religious ceremony. Ours are governed by the state, others not. So here, at least we can view it as the creation of contract, subject to certain terms, such as continued fidelity... yet, even then it is rare that the law will deem a breach of a term of a contract so abhorant that it would warrant a form of criminal punnishment over recission of the contract. When viewed in that legalistic sense though, marriage is also defined as a union 'for life' which could render divorce a criminally liable breach of contract, but again, lol, they'd only really enforce recission, which is what they'd want anyway.

 

[hizzle?]

a few weeks ago, there was a thread about honor killing,
honor killing used to be in effect in Lebanon, but i was talking to a criminologist yesterday,
i was told the law was replaced by a new one:

the new law considers adultery a crime, and it's punishable 1 month to a year for men and 3 months to 2 years for women.

the law is stupid and sexist, but in my opinion, it's better than honor killings.

what do u think?

i think that it's more of a moral crime than anything else...

 

[Default MX]

A promise IS legaly binding for one year. Verbal agreements, at that, are legaly binding for one year. Anything over has to be writen. Remember that the next time you promise to give your friend 5000 dollaz. (He can, and should, sue you.)

 

[Illuminattile]

A promise IS legaly binding for one year. Verbal agreements, at that, are legaly binding for one year. Anything over has to be writen. Remember that the next time you promise to give your friend 5000 dollaz. (He can, and should, sue you.)

So if I say to someone "Meet me at 6:00" and they say "OK, I'll be there" and then turn up at 6:01, how much am I entitled to?

Promises aren't legally binding unless it's clear that both parties intended them to be.

"The law presumes that social agreements are not intended to be legally binding."

Of course, if there are special circumstances the law might take a different view. For example, if you promised to let someone move in with you and he sold his apartment only for you to then renege on that promise, he might be able to sue you.

United States Law might be different, I'm basing this on the good old UK justice system.

 

[Amara]

A promise IS legaly binding for one year. Verbal agreements, at that, are legaly binding for one year. Anything over has to be writen. Remember that the next time you promise to give your friend 5000 dollaz. (He can, and should, sue you.)

That's not how it is in our system either. Intention is the key here as well, along with consideration to determine if a verbal contract is binding.

Doesnt really relate to adultery anyway. What was your point? lol.