Arthur Brain
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Why make life-long vows, then?
Because that's what people hope to have in a long term relationship? Plenty marriages do work out, just not all.
Why make life-long vows, then?
Precisely. What difference does it make to the relationship I value if gay people are afforded the same?
None.
It's just one more step in the continuing devaluation and trivialization of marriage.
It's just one more step in the continuing devaluation and trivialization of marriage.
Because that's what people hope to have in a long term relationship? Plenty marriages do work out, just not all.
Gj - are you married?
Artie - are you married?
Ug.... not the point.
I know wife-beating wouldn't and shouldn't be legalized.
Why shouldn't it be legalized? Or rape. Theft. Murder. Arson?
Because it harms people.
Why shouldn't incest, bestiality,
glassjester said:or polygamy be legalized?
To you maybe, not to me and not to most I would wager.
No. It. Does. Not. Those other actions I listed are done without consent. There is always a victim. You cannot show a victim or aggressive action in two partners CONSENTING to marry.
Desperate much? Do I REALLY need to point out to you that children CANNOT consent to sex ... neither can animals ...
Not in the same category ...
Indeed ... many heterosexual married couples have devalued marriage for several decades.
No reason to pretend heterosexual marriage is sacred.
So when two people vow to spend their lives together, and to make it work, why is neither person actually able to hold the other to that vow?
Seems pointless.
I meant wife-beating harms people.
Who mentioned children? Why can't two consenting, adult brothers marry?
Also, we don't need consent of animals to keep them captive, to kill them, to skin them, to experiment on them, to slaughter them, to eat them...
The category is marriage.
Right! Should that be reversed?
But should it be?
If the relationship is past repair then sad as that is, there's no point in pretending otherwise and it can be for all manner of reasons. Is there any point in staying in a relationship that isn't working and isn't going to? You're very simplistic on this.
Couples who stay in a volatile, loveless marriages not only harm themselves, but more importantly, harm their children. I know this for the simple fact that I was married to man whose parent's brought he and his brother up in one of *those* marriages. My ex-inlaws did a really number on their son.
For instance?"Harm" does not have to be involved for something to be wrong to do.
For instance?
Gj - are you married?
Artie - are you married?
For instance?