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This is why I think the classical writers have much to teach us, one we might try to have a diverse or more than one ruling class sharing power (or share power between the classes as much as possible) and two prevent hybris from settling in to the ruling class, make it actionable that acting...

I have been reading it and finding the argumentation offered by both sides to be rather interesting. I can't remember if this has been covered, but there is differing definitions and varieties of individualism, and that people here aren't arguing from the same grounds. Thinking about it, I would...

Ah, I understand what you meant then. But there is also the question of whether legality and criminality can be separated, and that things can be legal, yet criminal, and as we all known there are things that are not criminal, yet are illegal. And law deals with more than criminality, so I think...

No, I am not. And I may have misinterpreted what you said, given there was some ambiguity in the wording. You said something about being unable to make the strongest possible argument for the legal status of it from the opposing side(a steelman argument). So I might have made an error as to...

That is interesting, it is good to get the opinion of people who actually study the subject. As an irreligious person, I can't invoke the divine or religious commandment, so I look to other grounds for why things should or should not be done. I am against adultery for reasons that follow from...

Adultery is breach of contract, and a serious one at that. You make a serious commitment to tie your life to someone, one that means they utterly depend on you. And given the courts already adjudicate this contract heavily, it would make sense to treat it like other facets of this contract...