Let's say person M (for murder) and person A (for adultery) are married. Person M treats person A very well, but person A has an affair anyway. Person M finds out, and is so mad that person M kills person A.
Which is worse? Person A's adultery, or person M's murder of person A? Despite the question's title, the question isn't whether or not it's entirely justified, but just which is worse.
Suppose person M had some reason for not wanting to just divorce person A. Maybe person M didn't want to have to lose or share custody of the kids.
2007-09-02 13:07:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Disregard the legal consequences. It's just a hypothetical question.
2007-09-02 13:21:15 · update #1
Murder is worse
2007-09-02 13:15:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Murder is always worse than adultery. It could be argued that finding your spouse in bed with someone else can cause temporary insanity, but killing someone over adultery is just plain stupid any way you look at it. A betrayed spouse might commit murder to avoid divorce and split custody of the kids, but they usually do it either in a fit of anger, or as revenge.
2007-09-02 13:20:21 · answer #2 · answered by lj1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Person M is wrong, OK? The answer for adultery is to simply leave. Sharing custody of the kids is just something both people have to live with. Person M needs to grow up and accept that you can't do whatever you may feel like doing in life. Person M needs therapy.
2007-09-02 13:26:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Youll never use adultry as a crime in a court of the law only as reason for divorce.
Best thing M can do is get on with a divorce You will have to prove the allegation if the other party contests it.
And let A go on and make somebody elses life miserable.
PS dont buy all that "Oh Im sorry and I'll never do it again BS"
2007-09-02 13:25:58 · answer #4 · answered by vladoviking 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clearly the murder is more wrong -- it takes away the life of another person . . . instead, I'd file for divorce and use the adultery as a wedge in the courts to drive that cheating bastard as far away from the kids as I possibly could.
2007-09-02 14:05:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many states have no fault divorce laws. You do not need a reason for a divorce.
2007-09-02 13:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by Bibs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Under Islamic Sharia law, I think that a killing like this is justified. Nice, huh?
2007-09-02 13:14:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say murder is worse.
2007-09-02 13:16:26 · answer #8 · answered by professorc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋