'Every day in the courts, men get off murder charges because the victims "nagged" them; in one such case in England, a man who drowned his common law wife by holding her head in a plastic garbage can full of home-made beer was set free by the judge who was deeply moved by his tale of the wounding things she said to him. As he left the court, the murderer said, "Don't get me wrong; she was a lovely person" - or words to that effect. Nobody seemed to think that it would have been preferable to have gone to the pub to escape her railing than to have killed her. He was provoked you see' (Germa…
