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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
Everyone should watch "the lost boys" documentary on CBC and think about if that started to become more prevelent in society what would be the macro result. It's all about control. Sometimes a society must reaffirm why we do things the way we do things and resist the urge to get into moral equivilency arguements on all issues that automatically devolve into
"everyone do what you feel like as long as everyone involved gives consent." The ultimate problem is that in morman sects and Islamic polygamous relationships I'd find it really hard for the women who have been indoctirnated in these faiths (That incidently are about iscolation, domination and control) could even possibly give 'informed' consent. Consent yes, but you can't tell me a 15 year old girl who has been iscolated from common society that is forced into an arranged marriage in which she has to share her 60 year old husband with 5 other wives isn't in a lot of ways pschycologically forced into it.
This isn't an opportunity for "What might be right for some, might be wrong for others, the world marches to the beat of different drum" reasoning.
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I agree with you on the problems about consent. But that really has nothing to do with polygamy; rather it's about how this specific community operates and governs itself. There are a lot of religious communities in the world (and probably in Canada) that have similar arranged marriage systems, similar indoctrination and coercion, but without the polygamy. If anyone can suggest how you'd go about creating a law that would prevent coercive arranged marriages, I'd be all for that. But a ban on polygamy certainly won't solve it.