No More Bin Laden

[Kevin]

I hope you accidentally left out a "not" between the "I'm" and the "stupid". Because, if you are stupid, you've done a fine job of hiding it.

It was actually intentionally left off, but done so to look accidental. I'm well known for leaving words out of things I type or write. Even when I proofread I still can have a blind spot and read what I intended to write even with the proofing (though I've learned techniques that help me not do that). In this case though I thought it would be a nice way to clearly illustrate that intended point of the statement.

Hi,

I'm going to stay out of this mine field in a quagmire you two are setting up. But I just have to comment on this:

Why should we care that some people want to have many spouses?

Because this is inequality. You agree with the fact that men have a god given power over women.

In context, yeah. But as presented, it could be {one man, multiple women}, {one woman, multiple men}, {multiple men}, {multiple women}, {multiple men, multiple women} in a circle, line, or other arrangement, with or without rules about alternating the order of accepting new partners or about the number permitted at one time.

Basically, why should anyone care what relationships adults form with each other? As long as they either have no children or provide for those children, it is nobody else's business (and this includes the tax collector, who should neither penalize nor reward a group for its size).

--Pete

I agree with that and my co-worker who says marriage is a church thing, it shouldn't have an legal bearing. The legal things should be handled with a legal contract, be that a civil union, or whatever you want to call it. Those legal issues I care about aren't taxes, it's property rights, insurance benefits, financial accounts, etc. But that is more of a business side of things, just like when companies or individuals enter business contracts. Having a legal union that is what many folks think of as marriage makes sense. Though I agree it shouldn't affect how people are taxed.

The arguments on marriage often end up being that families that aren't a single mother and single father can endanger the "healthy" development of a child and since a child is in danger we need a source of authority to step in and fix it. Those arguments are very counterable in my opinion but I'm not going to get into that here.