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France to Make Insulting Your Spouse a Crime

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-my-wife-please dept.

Under a new law, France will become the first country in the world to ban "psychological violence" between married or cohabiting couples. The law applies to both men and women and covers such things as: repeated rude remarks about a partner's looks, false allegations of cheating, and threats of violence. French premier Francois Fillon said, "The creation of this offense will allow us to deal with the most insidious situations — situations that leave no visible scars, but which leave victims torn up inside."

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  1. Useless by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Completely unenforceable, and every failed relationship is going to be seen as "psychological abuse".

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  2. totally worth it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    i think if you got to yell at them with a megaphone, it would be worth the arrest.

  3. Liberty? Wrong Culture by andersh · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Did you notice that the article is about France? We Europeans have a different view of what liberty is and should be.

    Your notions of "liberty" and "freedom from government" are *American* concepts, and they are certainly NOT universal!

    Europeans in general have a more positive view of government and regulations, this is not just my opinion but the results of research

    You call us "socialists", which is a half-lie at best, yet you don't understand how different we are from you, do you?