I disagree. I see frequent disconnects between what society sees as acceptable, and what laws express.
For example, adultery is perfectly legal, and speeding is not. Most people reject the former, and frequently engage in the latter.
What are you talking about? The tort of criminal conversation, or as you put it in non-legal jargon, "adultery," is in no sense "perfectly legal".
Mistresses get sued all the time for alienation of affection and criminal conversation, with multi-million dollar damage awards. There was a nice $30,000,000 award in 2011.
If people took your advice on the nature of the laws of the United States, they would end up with quite a surprise when a local Sheriff shows up and serves them with a lawsuit!
"Stealing someone else's spouse can cost you in North Carolina. State law allows divorcees to sue a person who had an affair with their spouse.
Those who have used the alienation of affection law say that it makes cheaters think twice. Some divorce attorneys, though, say that taxpayers are the ones who pay under the law.
"If you steal a high-income male who's a good husband and you have a hand in that, you should be held accountable," said family law attorney Charles Ullman, who supports the law."
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