> On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 02:02 AM, joand315 wrote:
>
>> Jon Johanning wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 01:29 PM, DoreneFC at aol.com wrote:
>>> Maybe that's because more Americans are tempted about adultery than
>>> about crimes of violence. So they have to keep reinforcing their
>>> belief that it's wrong.
>>> Bingo!
>> I would have thought it was because they had been hurt by adultery,
>> knew someone who was hurt by adultery, or were afraid of being hurt by
>> adultery.
> Of course, that's true in a lot of cases, also. I'm pretty sure that
> there are no statistical studies at all on which category is more
> numerous, but it would be interesting to know.
I'm sure it's a defensive mechanism, either way. -joan
> Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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