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Originally Posted by GGG
Polygamy is already legal as long as you only marry one of the women. The others can just live with you. Same Sex marriage doesn't open the door for this at all. The biology argument actually works better for polygamy then it does for monogomy. More male seed is spread and the women are cared for. From a strictly biological stand point polygamy is quite common in animals.
Not all animals... many are naturally monogamous. (Some by death of course). The question is whether polygamy is a learned behavior or an instinctual one. If you think its learned, then biology harms the argument.
As well the use of the term "traditional Sensability" seems to me to be a term resistant to change. It goes along the lines of women shouldn't vote, children should be seen and not heard, 10% of your income should go to the church, the king gets to sleep with a new bride first. All kinds of outdated cultural norms can be defended with the term traditional sensability.
Of course, traditional sensibility is a term resistant to change because much of it has stood the test of time. Sensibility has positives, and does evolve over time with society, eliminating tithes, primae noctis, and even mysogyny.
Anyways all of these slippery slope issues is just more reason that the government should get out of the marriage buisness.
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I totally agree with this. I'm simply saying if the government wants to play in the marriage pool, expect to deal with a lot of crap.