Should reading your wife's e-mail be a crime?

He shouldn't have been going through his wife's e-mail, but in my opinion this should be more of a moral problem than a criminal problem. In other words, he was in the wrong, but he shouldn't go to jail or go to court over something so stupid.

 

Only in America!!!!:2thumbsup:

 

You should never read your wife's email or anyones if they don;t know so if you are thinking about it, my friend, you should rethink it and don;t do it because it is dishonest and how would you like her to do that to your email? the nswer is that you wouldn't like it at all, right? so how can you think about doing this yourself? ok if you don't trust her just break up or something. Its not worth it my friend ok?

 

well, my wife says the possible sentence seems a bit extreme

her boyfriend agrees

[i kid, i kid, what the hell is her gmail pwd?]

 

Overzealous dick head prosecuter. You don't put a man in jail for being nosy. Unless he's being nosy around the girls/women's bathroom.

 

Morally it is not a persons best quality if they invade another's privacy. I am not convinced that someone should be jailed for reading a spouses mail though.

You legally can not open someones snail mail without permission.

I would think that if you have to snoop through your spouses mail then your relationship is already in trouble.

 

As Heat mentioned, going through Snail Mail is illegal and (in my opinion) should be. With that in mind, I don't see why there should be any legal difference between snail mail and email.

 

Its a strange world where someone is allowed to accumulate debt against a husband or wifes name but where potentially the wronged party could not legally check the details of the debt.
Bottom line all e-mail/snail mail should be either knowingly open for all parties or knowingly closed and it should be a moral or conscience matter. In a strong relationship there should be nothing to hide, if there is a privacy agreement between partners then the relationship is not open and loving.

Prying into a partners mail will only lead to hurt if the relationship is rocky, I have all the details for my ex's e-mail account but I know to look at it would only bring me heartache and a huge dollop of guilt. Interesting case tho

 

What does this have to do with the relationship itself? I think its as much about the third person's privacy as it is about the partner's. I don't want my mails to be read by my friend's partners.

 

To read your wife's email is obviously morally challenging, yet I had always thought cheating on your husband was equally so.

It's a funny old world.