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[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 15 points 5 months ago

As in, you can kill the guy if you catch them in the act?!

[-] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Yup, sounds like it. I think this is what the French call "a crime of passion". The idea is that the moment is so enraging that one cannot be held accountable for one's actions in that moment. It's a kind of, "fuck around and find out," law.

[-] Naja_Kaouthia@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

No I think this definitively qualifies as fuck around and find out.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

Not if you are a wife and catch your husband though.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It should be a minimal crime either way.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

In the case of the law, it did not have to be done in the heat of the moment. You could all take a few minutes, put your clothes on, have some snacks and drinks while you talk it all over. A few hours later, tell everyone you're getting up to go to the restroom so they don't get suspicious. Get your rifle, and then go back to the dining room and shoot the guy in the face. All legal.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I'm okay with this. Maybe just manslaughter.

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