I am pretty sure that "beating his wife" is criminal in most countries while "sleeping with someone that is not his wife" is not. That is material difference right there.

You words are doing a lot of work blurring the difference here.

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wat10000 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It’s not that long ago when the legalities would have been reversed. I don’t think that’s a very good guide.

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victorhooi 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think you're drawing a bit of a straw-man fallacy there.

We're talking about current events - and hence current social norms and mores (although I do concede there's a spectrum there - and that American culture still does have a bit of Puritan culture embedded in it).

Slavery is illegal in most places in 20206 - but sure - it wasn't illegal 100 years ago.

Just like homosexuality was illegal some 50 years ago - but isn't illegal today (in most places).

But in 2026 - if Jensen Huang (or anybody else) has multiple consensual relationships with lots of adult women (or men) - that's their business. We might have our own personal views on whether we would have relationships with lots of women (or men) - but that's a different thing.

This isn't the Handmaid's Tale.

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fg137 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Citation needed.

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wat10000 18 hours ago | parent [-]

"The practice of wife beating was legally acceptable throughout most of history. In fact, it was not made illegal in every state until 1920." https://www.thefreelibrary.com/No-drop%20prosecution%20of%20...

"It is an open question whether adultery continues to be viable as criminal law even though it remains on the books in 24 states and territories." https://web.archive.org/web/20170503222839/http://www.nytime...

If you'd like to know more, Wikipedia has many cites for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adultery_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_violence#History

	▲	fg137 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		1920 -- your definition of " not long ago" is very different from mine. And about equating "remain on the books" to actually enforced law that is relevant in real life: sure, but I'm not going to waste my time convincing you otherwise.