Your reasoning is perfectly fine and in line with most jurisdictions word-wide. This is just one of many cases where people elsewhere shake their heads in disbe

Your reasoning is perfectly fine and in line with most jurisdictions word-wide. This is just one of many cases where people elsewhere shake their heads in disbelief. How the US and UK deal with this matter is a big exception and considered both immoral and illegal in much of the rest of the world. These two countries are 'special' in many regards, and you cannot and ought not take their sense of morality and their system of law as a basis for anything.