Yes, I already knew you to be incapable of understanding the difference between the letter of the law and spirit of the law,
And yet you seem to be completely incapable of explaining it, in this case. You only seem to be able to repeat your claim that this action did not violate the spirit of the law. Repeating it until you puke doesn't make it any more true.
It has dawned on me that perhaps I am simply using terms you have never encountered in your young life, since you keep repeating the letter of the law over and over with no comprehension of the difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
The letter of the law is that which you keep repeating like you do. The spirit of the law, however, refers to the reason the law was enacted, what it wished to accomplish and the sort of behavior it hoped to address. That is what is meant by the term "spirit" of the law
In this case, the laws against sexual battery are seeking to address actions that are sexual in nature, unwanted, coercive and violative to the point of creating extreme duress. The idea is to protect women from overtly sexual behavior that is unwanted.
In the case of the butt slap, the question that needs to be asked is whether it was overtly sexual and coercive. As I said, his hand did not come close to her genitals. Despite her lies about it in order to create herself as victim, the action was brief rather than prolonged. It didn't last long enough so that coercion was necessary to further the interaction, and since this happened in broad daylight surrounded by hundreds of people, she was never in any danger. It was simply a spontaneous, albeit stupid and rude slap on her behind.
Where we differ is that you wish this to punish the man through the legal system, thus branding him as a sexual predator, and I do not think it rises to a criminal level thus falling under the purview of law enforcement. Your insistence on making this man a criminal far exceeds what he actually did, especially inasmuch as it would brand him in ways that would ruin his like.
We have a concept in our country that says people should be equal before the law. Since you wish to criminalize and stigmatize this man, the same should apply to ALL people engaging in similar behavior. If these same standards were applied to all people, our criminal justice system would collapse under the sheer weight all the criminal court cases thus supported.
I think the valuable time of our court system would be better spent addressing cases of real abuse involving real victimization, and leave all this silly manufactured leftist snowflake outrage out of it. The guy was a jerk, no doubt. Your desire for vengeance simply to virtue signal is just as bad. Sure, you want to make everything legal that you don't like. Authoritarians roll that way. At some point, though, you need to realize that people are going to act in ways you don't like and that you can't make criminals out of everybody.
Turning this man into a criminal for what he did is trivial, petty and vindictive. You want to ruin his life just to feel righteous. IMO, that is just as uncivil as anything he did.
Anyone got pix of her butt at the time of the slapping? I inquiring minds want to know. He also said he thought he slapped her on the back. You never know she could have a nice high butt. (YUMM) and who wouldn 't want to slap THAT in a bicycle-peddling-testosterone "rage?" Oh Yeah, and.....There is no video of her butt and his hand. This is the most stupid shit I have seen in a long time.
And the MSM obliges his fantasy.......LOL
