Too much choice (1)

[james_davis_nicoll]

It seems to me that if you let people marry who they like, this can only inevitably lead them to want to exercise choice in other fields of human endeavour and then where would we be? Today it's three people getting married but tomorrow it could be drinking water with a bit of lime in it instead of a more economically strategic soft drink or someone deciding they don't want to work 80 hours weeks.

I'm talking to you, Brazil

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Marriages between one man and one woman can be completely abusive, but I don't want to wipe out man-woman marriages as a result, though I admit I've seen that argument made.

Traditional polygyny, in which the women have no say in further additions to the relationship and are effectively chattel, is obviously right out. But I'm not convinced that polygyny itself is where we have to draw the line.