Donald Sterling and Political Theory

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Warning: I'm currently enjoying a delicious whiskey kahlua milk beverage. My reasoning may become impaired.

Too late.

If I slap you upside the head for being dumb but you never say I assaulted you does that mean I never assaulted you?

No, but if I go out of my way to explain the incident and don't mention it, it would be reasonable to assume it didn't happen. This is obviously only valid in the situations where the potential offender has no power over the potential victim, so if the girlfriend is one of those MS-13 types all bets are off.

Talk about making things up. Is that actually what the California law says? As long as both people are aware of the recording either party can do whatever they want with it despite the intended purposes of said recording?

So if a man and a woman want to make a sex tape together for their own private use then the man gets mad at her and uploads the tape on the internet you feel the man did nothing wrong?

In any event that's why Ker_Thwap didn't want to make this a legal discussion but rather a moral discussion.

Even if this chick was perfectly within her rights to do what she did do you feel from a moral perspective it was the right thing to do?

I'll explain this entire situation to you and Ker_Thwap. Suppose you had a tape of that man uploading the tape, and that the police can't do anything about it because for some insane reason they don't have universal surveillance. What to do? You have proof the man is a scumbag that is not admissible in a court of law... but the court of public opinion, aha!

Suppose you're a police officer, and you have a warrant for a kidnapper's arrest. You break into his home, drag him out in handcuffs, and put him in a cell for the rest of his life.

OMG YOU'RE DOING THE SAME THING AS HE DID! YOU'RE NO DIFFERENT! ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS!?!?

The word you're groping for is "context". Context, Terry. Context.