Nigeria, Jan. 14 -- A conversation just erupted online, particularly within a WhatsApp group, sparked by a news caption that read, "Akwa Ibom lawmakers propose 10 years imprisonment for women sleeping with married men." The post, shared by a netizen with the username Katlong, quickly became a magnet for opinion, emotion, theology, culture, law, and lived experience. What followed was not just debate, but a vivid exhibition of how society defines morality, normalcy, and, ultimately, madness.

One contributor, Eche Emmanuel, argued that every society enacts laws peculiar to its norms, culture, and traditions, suggesting that the proposed law merely reflected local values and might curb what he described as an age-long culture of promiscuit...