In the article “What’s Wrong With Adultery?” by Professor Bonnie Steinbock, she lays out her views about infidelity in marriage, and backs them up with many solid reasons and arguments. I appreciate the way she writes and presents her position, because she writes in a way where she, in a senes, argues for both sides. I did not even fully understand her opinion until the last couple of pages. She seems very open to different views, and even open to considering changing her own views. After examining and arguing for both sides, Steinbock’s final view on adultery is that, if there ceases to be love in the marriage or if the spouses both agree it is okay to see other people, it is okay and even morally acceptable. Overall, adultery is acceptable for Steinbock. Even though I may not agree with Steinbock on some things, I think her arguments and her logic behind her reasoning are very sound. However, like stated above, her views are not concrete and she has some exceptions and other points she makes as well. She thinks there are very good reasons why adultery is frowned upon and seriously immoral, because of promise breaking and deception, and that infidelity is intolerable and destructive in …show more content…
Promise-breaking is an exception to Steinbock’s view that adultery is okay, and on page three she states, “One is that adultery is an instance of promise-breaking, on the view that marriage involves, explicitly or implicitly, a promise of sexual fidelity: to forsake all others.” Steinbock realizes that when two people get married they make a vow, and that vow is to be honored and taken very seriously. I respect her opinion on this matter, and I like her example about Mick Jagger choosing to remain unmarried, because he knows he cannot be sexually exclusive. She brought up a good reason why adultery is wrong, and I think her logic behind it was sound and