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Is all revenge porn barred under the law or are there circumstances to take into account? If your longtime spouse cheats on you, turns your world upside, and fu
by throwaway4546 10y ago
Is all revenge porn barred under the law or are there circumstances to take into account? If your longtime spouse cheats on you, turns your world upside, and further abandons you, is not revenge porn some people's last power they have to (equally immorally) strike back?
- JulianMorrison 10y agoThe law doesn't any more allow "justified" revenge porn than it allows "justified" duelling. You will go to jail.
- xupybd 10y agoI don't know if the law should be written to allow people to "strike back". Self defence is one thing but revenge is not a good justification. If you allow revenge for one action where do you draw the line? After generations everyone would have cause to "strike back" at someone.
- cheriot 10y agoPeople uploading revenge porn deserve to be punched in the nose, but I'm still guilty of assault if I do it.
- karmachameleon2 10y agoSo "revenge porn" is bad because it hurts people's feelings or something, and that's why it should be criminalized! But cheating on someone shouldn't be criminalized even though it hurts at least as much!
- pjc50 10y agoThat used to be the case, and it was terrible. Still is in Saudi Arabia.
- karmachameleon2 10y agoThe point was the double-standard (that shouldn't exist)
- JulianMorrison 10y agoRevenge porn is violence against a person. Cheating is not. It's certainly a valid reason to end a relationship but you do not have a right to another person's affection. If they behave like a jerk, walk away. The sorts of mentalities that see cheating as a crime, do that because they see women as self-stealing property or disobedient chattels. They are in other words disgustingly abusive, controlling and sexist. In this case it is the anger against the cheating, not the cheating itself, that is the violence.
- zamalek 10y ago> If they behave like a jerk, walk away. Exactly. Furthermore, the law does not delineate what is right and what is wrong; that is a moral issue. It is a "best effort." The absence of legal ramifications does not mean that something is morally acceptable. Many people agree that revenge porn is wrong, which is why the law (as the lowest common denominator) now reflects that sentiment.
- nl 10y agoSo "revenge porn" is bad because it hurts people's feeling No, because it is harmful. It harms a person's reputation. It also violates a person's privacy. But cheating on someone shouldn't be criminalized even though it hurts at least as much This is a false choice. Society has decided that punishing people for cheating is a stupid idea. Society has also decided that punishing people for tax fraud is a good idea. These things are both completely irrelevant to any laws on revenge porn.
- karmachameleon2 10y agoCheating on people is harmful too. It often results in broken homes and marriages, which is harmful to children's development and well-being. So by that logic, cheating should be illegal too. By the way, society hasn't decided anything because it's not a sentient being. The politicians running our governments have decided that punishing people for "tax fraud" is a great idea, mostly because they don't want people to stop paying taxes.. which everyone would do right away if there was no punishment for disobedience.