Jealousy

[denuseri]

Technically its a crime of temporary insanity isn't it?

[thir]

Technically its a crime of temporary insanity isn't it?

But that beggers the question of what made people go insane, and why it is so accepted - if it is? In fact, I have a mind to start another thread about love, seen from many angles.

[Ozme52]

Technically its a crime of temporary insanity isn't it?

I think they now call it diminished capacity. It used to be an excuse to let off an avenging husband, condemn and incarcerate a jealous wife, and basically enforce the rights of male ownership of chattel wives... but those times have mostly passed. I don't know what a diminished capacity ruling begets you but at least it begets both genders more or less the same result.