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Pastimes : Off Topic - Anything Goes
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To: Cogito who wrote (816)3/11/2008 5:24:22 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 6846
 
If prostitution were not illegal, she would have been hurt less.
If murder were not illegal, thwe wife of a murderer would be hurt less too.
If that's a valid argument against a law, welcome to anarchy.

Tim was saying that if a man cheats on his wife and hurts her by doing that, then she can be considered a victim even though he has committed no crime. He was talking about general cases, not the specifics of the Spitzer case.
This whole discussion has been about the Spitzer case.

<So adultery produces a crimeless victim, whereas prostitution is a victimless crime.
Yeah? Suppose she catches AIDS? Is it still victimless?

The wife in this case is hurt both by the cheating, and by the fact that the cheating happened with a prostitute, which makes it illegal.
Your marital state is almost never a consideration in whether you are charged with a crime. He committed at least one regardless of that.
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