Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: KingOfVagabonds

Adultery leads to all kinds of problems.

Maybe the ancients were onto something when they demanded strict punishment for it.


22 posted on 06/22/2012 12:47:12 PM PDT by Fido969
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Fido969

We disregard the wisdom of our elders to our own detriment.


23 posted on 06/22/2012 12:52:44 PM PDT by Anvilhead (Why do we elect politicians when the desire for the job disqualifies you for it?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

To: Fido969
From Plato's Laws, Book VIII:

"...perhaps we'll succeed in imposing one or other of two standards of sexual conduct. (1) Ideally, no one will dare to have relations with any respectable citizen woman except his own wedded wife, or sow illegitimate and bastard seed in courtesans, or sterile seed in males in defiance of nature. (2) Alternatively, while suppressing sodomy entirely, we might insist that if a man does have intercourse with any woman (hired or procured in some other way) except the wife he wed in holy marriage with the blessing of the gods, he must do so without any other man or woman getting to know about it. If he fails to keep the affair secret, I think we'd be right to exclude him by law from the award of state honors, on the grounds that he's no better than an alien."

(Translated by Trevor J. Saunders)

29 posted on 06/22/2012 1:05:27 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

To: Fido969
“Adultery leads to all kinds of problems.

Maybe the ancients were onto something when they demanded strict punishment for it.”

Agreed.

After reading so many juvenile postings on this subject, it's apparent that FR has its share of amoral SOBs.

36 posted on 06/22/2012 1:25:30 PM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson