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Originally Posted by Knalus
The definition is important even if it's just happening to you (and your spouse). It's about something important. Very few important things are undefined, and if they are, people do their best to define it. I got married. It has a meaning to it that was communicated to me what I had done. It's not just for mutual understanding, but for understanding oneself as well. At least this definition is.
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So I think your original definition of marriage was far too brief, since you're talking about what marriage means to you, means to society, etc.
I understand and agree with what you are saying about the meaning of marriage to you and your partner.
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Originally Posted by Knalus
And because it happened to me, and because it was important to me, it matters to me what happens to it, even if it shouldn't.
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I think that's entirely reasonable, marriage is a major social construct that everyone has a stake in, so it does matter.
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Originally Posted by Knalus
In that case, it's important what the definition is even to those who disagree with parts of it's definition. Why not change the definition to "A marriage is a union between a man and a woman, or a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, and it doesn't really mean anything"?
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This is where you lose me. I don't understand why changing it has to mean it doesn't mean anything, especially when those changes are informed by higher virtues.
The only thing you've changed is "between a man and a woman" to "between a person and a person", how does that take away any meaning, let alone all of it?