... see why the law should criminalize intercourse between husband and wife. Should we look at this in a broader context? NO. Good laws should only punish those who do wrong. When laws punish both wrongdoers and rightdoers, the law is bad and needs to be abolished. No second angle needs to be look at. If these kinds of prosecution continues, pretty soon everyone is going to require a court...

... of government exists --- if only a self- appointed warlord with an ample number of loyal troops --- there will usually be some sort of mechanism for adjudicating private disputes and punishing wrongdoers. <yawn> What would make their doings "wrong," hmmmm? "Wrongs" punishable by a warlord's troops will be all acts contrary to the decrees of the warlord. No, they ...

... sort of government exists --- if only a self- appointed warlord with an ample number of loyal troops --- there will usually be some sort of mechanism for adjudicating private disputes and punishing wrongdoers. <yawn> What would make their doings "wrong," hmmmm? "Wrongs" punishable by a warlord's troops will be all acts contrary to the decrees of the warlord. ...

... government exists --- if only a self- appointed warlord with an ample number of loyal troops --- there will usually be some sort of mechanism for adjudicating private disputes and punishing wrongdoers. <yawn> What would make their doings "wrong," hmmmm? "Wrongs" punishable by a warlord's troops will be all acts contrary to the decrees of the warlord. Those mechanisms, ...

...of government exists --- if only a self- appointed warlord with an ample number of loyal troops --- there will usually be some sort of mechanism for adjudicating private disputes and punishing wrongdoers. <yawn> What would make their doings "wrong," hmmmm? Those mechanisms, however, are not created to protect anyone's rights. They are provided only to keep the peace and minimize...

... of government exists --- if only a self- appointed warlord with an ample number of loyal troops --- there will usually be some sort of mechanism for adjudicating private disputes and punishing wrongdoers. Those mechanisms, however, are not created to protect anyone's rights. They are provided only to keep the peace and minimize threats to the regime (such as Rome's Praetorian Guard). In ...

...many aspects of revenge resemble or echo the concept of justice, revenge usually has a more injurious than harmonious goal with The goal of revenge usually consists of forcing the perceived wrongdoer to suffer the same pain that was originally inflicted, consequently we need to decide ethically what kind of criteria and standards work for differentiating vengeance from retribution, and then ...

... primarily of retaliation against a person or group in response to a perceived wrongdoing. Although many aspects of revenge resemble or echo the concept of justice, revenge usually has a more injurious than harmonious goal. The goal of revenge usually consists of forcing the perceived wrongdoer to suffer the same pain that was originally inflicted.' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge

... arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own-not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine." ;-) does that mean, "there is only one mind and ...

..., arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own-not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine." ;-) does that mean, "there is only one mind and it ...