There was no discussion about good or bad
motivations for getting married, only the impacts at a more macro level as a result of the usual features of a marriage.
Why it's being discussed in this thread, who knows. I suppose it's somewhat tied to the RL in the sense that truths about the social importance of institutions like marriage and religion are the sort that will be resisted by the left as anti-dogmatic. But unless you can engineer a substitute for the very human needs that those sorts of institutions fill, it shouldn't really be surprising that the void left by their decline will cause some problems. Which is why this statement is naive.
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Originally Posted by MattyC
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Originally Posted by peter12
What we really discussing here is this: is a community better served with mosque, cathedral or church, or government-funded foundation at its centre? This is an important question, and distinctions can be made between all three.
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Isn't the answer to this obvous? I know a lot of people feel the government is a boogyman, but at it's most basic principal, it is a representive of the community.
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It's not at all obvious. Government can't really fulfil the psychological needs that religion satisfies for many people. If everyone's moral tribe is a government body or political entity rather than a church, that might actually have much worse results for society at large.