Good question. I guess you could say polygamy is wrong because it undermines the family unit, but that argument seems hollow, and the family unit undermined itself already with divorce rates.
Traditionally polygamy might be bad because it was based out of male power female submission etc.. if you allow polygamy how do you make sure that's not coming back? Or do you need to? Or do you want to?
I like seeing a more active role of atheist thoughts in the public domain.. atheism is a large group of the population who usually don't "get a spot at the table" simply because they aren't an organized group. There's way more atheists than Jews in North America for example. But it seems to be totally acceptable for people to run anti-atheist ads, whereas if that same person ran a commercial saying "Don't vote for this person, they associate with Jews", there'd be hell to pay.
Changing the social consciousness so that atheism is an acceptable thing to think is a worthwhile goal isn't it?
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