[Vinny]

"I am against a death sentence in general for adultery because unlike murder, rape and drug trafficking/dealing (not drug addiction) as a few examples, I view adultery as a purely a moral issue." _________________________________________________________ Murder, rape, and drug trafficking are not pure moral issues or are they a hybrid of moral and non-moral issues? Your statement proves my point, that adultery is not looked upon as that "big of a deal" b/c sexual immorality has been "defined down" in our soceity and no one simply cares. Adultery is not looked upon as worthy of capital punisment b/c marriage, faithfulness, and keeping your vows is lessed valued by soceity. So all this feigned outrage over adultery being a capital offense covers or rather exposes what no one wants to admit. Look at abortion, that's murder but half of soceity doesn't care. So murder is being defined down. ________________________________________________ "Adultery takes places between two consenting adults, even if it hurts the partners of the ones involved. But, so does wife beating." Wife beating is not between two consenting adults.

[odds]

The point is that one cannot increase the value of marriage or force faithfulness and keeping one’s marriage vows (as you point out) by imposing a death sentence on purely moral and family issue such as adultery. If you disagree, then we’ll have to leave it at that.

I don’t understand your point about wife beating. Of course it isn’t between two consenting adults. Does the wife want to be beaten? If so, I would recommend a psychiatrist to the wife as well as the partner who beats her. I was saying adultery is between two consenting adults unlike rape, murder or wife beating.