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		cubefox 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer It doesn't justify it morally. (And it was illegal then and is now.)

ceejayoz 8 months ago [–]

Is being stuck as the property of an abusive spouse with no legal recourse moral?

What’s the moral choice for someone with zero 100% moral options?

Legal and moral aren’t the same. The Holocaust was legal under German law at the time; French partisans offing Nazis was illegal.

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