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curl-6 said:
JWeinCom said:

Well, then in this case. If one person promises another that they will only have sex with them, and then has sex with someone else, then they at least know that their action will potentially cause great harm. So would that be immoral? 

Or... looking at it another way... Think of it as a contract. If you tell someone that you'll forfeit the right to have sex outside of a relationship, and in exchange they'll do the same, then isn't that harmful? You've made them sacrifice something they may have enjoyed doing for nothing.

I guess so, but relatively speaking it's very low level harm compared to something like the death penalty, so while I don't personally approve, I don't consider it immoral to the point of "this should be prohibited".

I don't think that everything that is morally unacceptable should necessarily be prohibited. I also disagree on the level of harm it causes.