Comments on: U.K.: “Bid to make ’emotional blackmail’ a crime”

By: Malcolm Smith

Malcolm Smith — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 08:52:05 +0000

Since the marriages of the people involved are obviously on the rocks, the common sense approach is to deal with them the manner which worked in the past: fault divorce. No fault divorce has been a monumental disaster which has always acted to the advantage of the spouse with the least scruples, and the law keeps coming up with Band-Aid solutions such as this, without going to the core of the problem.

By: Barry Sheridan

Barry Sheridan — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 18:17:09 +0000

The objective of these MP’s is to further the power of the State by ensuring intimate inter-human relationships become too risky for either party to contemplate. The cost in lives already destroyed by these machinations is already beyond calculation, it will not stop until the State itself collapses from its internal contradictions.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:25:02 +0000

I’ve swiped Bob’s thought for my slightly expanded Cato cross-post version: http://www.cato.org/blog/criminalizing-emotional-blackmail

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 12:15:13 +0000

“Controlling or coercive behavior”? Isn’t that what government does?

Bob

By: ps

ps — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:14:16 +0000

Next on the list – dirty looks.

By: ras

ras — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 05:58:03 +0000

So if one partner tells the other, “I’m leaving you because you’re too controlling,” are they both guilty?