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Originally Posted by photon
I think your edit in Post 70 added a lot peter12.
I don't necessarily agree that a free society adopting polygamy would HAVE to mean it was taking a step backwards, if a society was "ready" for it, to be able to have it without the negative harm that has been associated with it in the past then there's no reason to disallow it.
So that then becomes the evaluation to base the decision on; would this be abused so much and the harm so pervasive that the benefit to the few that actually benefited from the arrangement doesn't justify allowing the arrangement.
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I do think that a sizable portion of society has accepted that monogamy is the best and most important institution to base a society upon. I think that's all we need to protect, from an institutional perspective, at least.