Originally posted by noticingthemistake

Originally posted by Raskolnikov
So if most of the people in a neighborhood don't want a man turned in for beating his wife, he shouldn't be arrested for it?

That's the wife's choice, no one can make that choice for her. Even if a nieghbor was to report it, if she doesn't press charges. Nothing can be done. That's the law.

Originally posted by Raskolnikov
Or because most of the Southern states were fine with slavery (and then later segregation), the Northern states shouldn't have interveined?

Look how many people dies over this and even after the northern states won, the slaves were not truely free. They were still persecuted in the south for another 100 years. Also the southern states broke away from the northern states, that was their decision.

Well, atleast you're consistant.