If I encourage you to break a contract, any contract, and you break it the fact that I encouraged you to break it has no bearing on the fact that you have liability for breaking a contract.
Do you think that just the marriage contract can be broken with impunity or any ole contract?
It does and it doesn't. Try "tortious interference". ;)
"Do you think that just the marriage contract can be broken with impunity or any ole contract?"
You can violate the terms of ANY contract with impunity, as long as the other party to it does not complain, and even then, the contract is not broken until the court says so.
If this were not true, there would be people who are now single because their spouse cheated, many who never knew it.
Imagine a widow who finds out she's been living in sin with
a "husband" who "broke their contract" 40 years ago - and now she can't get his Social Security.
It does have bearing, though, since the Schindlers encouraged him to 'break the contract', and then tried to use his 'breaking of the contract' as a reason to claim he was conflicted and thus should not have the right to make medical decisions on Terri's behalf.