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

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

The fact that polyandry has never been implemented does not give any indication that the expected failure modes should be different.

fraternal polyandry, while not especially common, is not unknown in south asia, even today. some observers predict that it's prevalence will increase in the near future, due to the severe (and increasing) imbalance in sex-ratios, particularly in northern India.