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It kinda should be IMO. If you can't not be faithful, don't fucking get married and be a cheating piece of shit.
You won't get a lot of argument that cheating is a shitty thing to do but the government doesn't need to be involved in peoples relationships.
Do you not see the issues with having the state enforce that?
It shouldn't be enforced by the state
Every couple that wants the legal rights grants by marriage must be monogamous whether they want to or not, because it gives you feelings that you are unwilling to process when confronted by committed but nonmonogamous relationships?
I was married, we had an open relationship from the start. How is that criminal?
That's not cheating, that's an open marriage. They're two different things.
It would have been criminal under the law. I cheated, she cheated. It was the law, whatever agreement she and I had was immaterial.
That's just how the system is. My wife and I are into bdsm. Legally speaking I'm guilty of spousal abuse because she legally can't consent.
So we just ignore the law. But if we ever divorced acrimoniously she could rake me over the fucking coals.
Why she can't consent? Is she underage wtf?
It must be a weird edge case. You can certainly consent to being beaten, humiliated, degraded, etc.
One thing you cannot consent to where I live is to be touched sexually while you are asleep. The moment you become unconscious (as though that were a thing with a clear, bright line definition) any sexual consent you have given is deemed to have been revoked. This seems rather paternalistic to me since you can consent to have your leg chopped off while you sleep, but whatever. There have been cases where police and crown prosecutors went after charges because someone talked about letting their husband have sex with them while they slept; ie they had moral consent but not legal consent, and so were charged with sex crimes over the protest of their willing partner.
A woman can't consent to being hit in my state. Or at least that was the common consensus when we were social about it.
I just looked it up and some random website says it's fine with consent so either the entire community was misinformed, something has changed, or that website was full of shit.
What about boxing or other contact sports?
Edited with more info. Idk. In Michigan if you hit your wife, my understanding is the cops will prosecute you whether she agrees to file charges or not.
For the record we are both in our fifties.
You don't have to be married to cheat. You are right, they are totally different things. Marriage is a legal status that has nothing to do with sex. Asexual people can get married. Two straight men can get married. People in open relationships can get married.
You want it to be illegal to cheat. That's bonkers. How would that even work? Do you really want the state investigating your intimate relationships to make sure they are legal??
Why should only sexual intercourse get that kind of protection? If my partner and I swear that we will share our feelings with each other, and I find out that they have feelings they've been keeping from me but sharing with someone else, that is cheating. But as long as there isn't a dick and a vagina involved, it's okay? Like where do you draw your lines, and why do you want those lines enforced by men with guns?
yeah great idea. criminalise everything. had your freedom to the state. the american dream
If you're worried about the American dream I have shit loads of horrible news for you since you haven't been paying attention for the last 40 fucking years apparently.
Being able to be a cheating shitbag with no consequences should be the least of your concerns at this point.
I don't think anyone is saying that it's ok and there should be no consequences, just that it's not a matter for the law. The law isn't really about what's moral and immoral. There are plenty of immoral things that are legal and moral things that are illegal. I think it's wrong to cut in line but I don't think we should be locking people up for it. I also think in many cases stealing is morally justifiable but I don't necessarily think we should make stealing legal.
IDK, you might be onto something here.
This is why we need to bring back stockades. Perfect punishment for that kind of shit. Just lock someone up in public let people deride them and throw vegetables at them all day and then let them go.
Yet somehow you're arguing to make it worse.
Hope your life never gets destroyed by a cheater, enjoy your ignorance.
Ahhh
Now it makes sense.
If someone cheated on you. Go live your best life. Because there's something else that commonly happens to guys if they don't, and it seems to be what's happening here
Pointing to other bad decisions to justify your bad decisions is a bad look no matter what, friend.
I’ve been cheated on and divorced. My ex was seeing a divorce lawyer lol. That was some fun times with depositions and constant harassment since they had 24/7 legal access.
Even with all that said, I don’t think cheating should ever be criminalized. Just gotta be careful who you marry or date. I still have never learned my lesson lol.
If a married couple want to fuck around with other people, why should that be a crime?
If they're in an open marriage, fine, whatever, but cheating destroys lives and should have consequences.
The law makes no distinction between the two. Open marriage? More like 5 years in a federal penitentiary waiting to happen because a cop coveted your wife. It's your word against their's unless you want the state to issue permits for sex or something.
What you're looking for is civil court, which is entirely different from criminal court and works differently as well. And that already exists for cheating on your spouse.
It does have consequences. You mean you want cheaters to be punished. That's a different thing.
Clearly they were cheated on and want them to suffer.
So you agree that it should have been repealed, then.