True love is breaking your s/o out of prison?

Not really, no. I can’t say for certain, as I have never really experienced “true love”, but I’m pretty sure I’d never break or attempt to break anyone out of prison for any reason.

IS this in regards to that new Russell Crowe movie coming out? Just curious.

Nah, it’s holding the gun at the robbery! :¬)

@Winters No, I had no idea he was coming out with a new movie.

I’d say love goes far beyond that. a good friend alone would be willing to try and get you out of jail.

@poisonedantidote Just to be clear, we’re talking about an illegal breaking-out of jail, not posting bail, right?

The only way I would say “yes” is if the person was truly innocent. Even then, however, probably not. Because the person is still considered guilty in the eyes of the law – which means they would have to be on the run forever, as would the person who helped break them out – and really, what kind of life would that be? Who would want that for the person they love?

That’s all assuming innocence, too. If the person is guilty, that’s a whole different story. If one helps a guilty person break out of jail (especially if the crime that was committed was a particularly bad one), that’s one majorly fucked up relationship, and I would say neither person involved truly loved the other one – because the person breaking out of jail should not want their loved one to potentially ruin their life and become involved. And the person helping break the other one out of prison should know that, if they truly loved the person, they need to learn from their mistake and not create another one.

@papayalily yea. ramming a truck in to the wall by “accident” letting people run off, or sneaking in a guard uniform so they can try and walk out or something.

note that i said good friend, not just friend. a friend would just come visit a couple of times at most.

EDIT: 5 years. thats how much prison time you should risk by trying to get a good friend out imo. obviously, it depends on the crime. if they raped a little kid, then they would not be friends anymore anyway. im talking about, they where stopped coming though an airport with 10 kilos of hash, or they tried to rob a bank, or something like that.

People always say things like “a true would help you bury a body” (and yes, I know it’s not meant to be taken that seriously). To that I just say “a true friend wouldn’t put you in a position where you could become an accessory to murder”. Same goes for this situation. If the person was innocent, that’s a little different, but as @DrasticDreamer pointed out, breaking someone out of prison could still potentially ruin your life if you’re caught.

No. True love would be helping that person realize the error of their ways and helping them become a better person. Breaking that person out of jail out of “true love” is pointless and selfish. The person might re-offend and hurt innocent people. As @DominicX mentioned, you might get in trouble.

Now, if the person was innocent and you were sure of that, then you should probably look into your legal options to getting the person set free through legal means (exoneration, pardon, review of evidence, appeal, etc.).

@poisonedantidote You would try to break a friend out of prison if they robbed a bank? Wow.

You could always try getting to a country from which you can’t be extradited from, then you wouldn’t have to run anymore.

No, I don’t think so. Agree with @weeveeship

No. True love is taking a bullet in the forehead for him during the escape attempt.

This reminds me of the old saying ‘a good friend will bail you out of gaol, but a great friend will be sitting next to you saying “we messed up this time!”’ Hopefully love would never involve gaol time though. I would be more inclined to say true love is leaving someone in gaol, however much it hurts, because you want what is best for them.

True love in this case should be “tough love” and convince the person to do the right thing and become a productive member of society. If the person is innocent, true love would be to work hard to prove the person’s innocent, not to break them out of prison, and consequently, put themselves in prison with this person.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations; it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

@DrasticDreamer a good friend yes. but while we are on the subject, i can only think of one person (other than family) that would qualify.

again, it all depends. if my friend tries to rob a bank, he takes hostages, and shoots 2 or 3 of them when his demands are not met, then no, i wont help him at all. if however my friend robs a bank, does it in a calm and clever way and does not hurt anyone, then i would help him. If im honest and open for a moment, there are a lot of laws that i do not agree with, and i do not obay laws that i don’t agree with.

EDIT: it also depends on the prison. if we are talking the prison here in Palma, then yea I’d give it a shot. it has low security and is run by mostly morons. if we are talking alcatraz, then no, i simply can not help. im not rambo, and trying to help in a situation like that would be silly, id simply be going on a “suicide” mission. the most you can hope for if you are locked up in alcatraz would be that i try and get a file or some other small tool to you, maybe meet you with a boat or car at some point.

True love would be trying to talk your s/o out of committing a crime.

Nope, can’t say that I would try to break anyone out of prison. If my husband were in jail and I tried to bust him out, we would lose our son… nope, not going to happen. I would have tried to talk my husband out of whatever it was that he did. I would try to be there for him as best I could and would try to get him the best lawyer we could, but what I would do for him would stop when it comes to crossing a line that could potentially cause me to lose my son (and any other children we have at the time).

What were they in for? And did they do it?

I would probably not break someone out of prison.

Sounds more like true idiocy than true love—but that’s just me.

Um….no.

True love is putting them in there,along with their mother. ;)

There’s love, and then there’s TRUE LOVE
What do the lates and greats have to say about love. I have done some exhaustive research to find out whether they think true love is breaking your love out of prison. Let’s see, shall we?

In some ways, love is rather ethereal. That doesn’t sound like prison breaking material,
Love can blind you but at the same time if you let it, it can also open your eyes.
Love is indescribable, yet self-explanatory.
Love is a vine that grows into our hearts.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Love is a friendship set to music

And yet, there’s something to be said for doing whatever it takes:
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.
Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.
Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.

True love is more complex.
For while:
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
We still see suggestions that a breakout may be in the cards. Here’s how you do it:
True love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
If you do that, it seems like you’ll make your escape:
True love never dies for it is lust that fades away.
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.
The cops may not catch you, but you might get pretty wet:
True love is just like rain; it touches us all.
And your clothes may get threadbare:
True love is like a pair of socks you gotta have two and they’ve gotta match.
But perhaps things don’t work out, after all:
True love doesn’t have a happy ending. True love doesn’t have an ending.

The oracles, as always, are mysterious. Interpreting their answers is difficult. But I say go for it! True love wants you to.

“There’s love, and then there’s TRUE LOVE”

TRUE LOVE, you wont know till you last grasp for air is accompanied along with your hand being grasped by your soul mate. :-)

”...then wuuv, twooo wuuv, shall follow you… forevahh…”

@Trillian is that from the Princess Bride?

@Winters Yes. Sorry. Don’t know what gets into me sometimes.

@Trillian hahaha don’t be sorry, Princess Bride is an awesome flick.