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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Oh I think you know. It does skew the marriage possibilities for other men in societies that practice polygamy. You may think it's not a real issue but in fact it is. A small polygamous community in Northern Arizona routinely drops off "extra" young men in other towns so that more of "its" women folk are available for marriage to older men. This strains social services. On a large scale polygamous societies are more violent and less productive. I also suspect social benefits become in equal portions abused and unavailable to those who need them. I'm married to two hundred women...where are my health benefits coming from? Civil legal issues abound. And frankly, 190 kids, one dad, 200 moms? Does that sound like an advantageous upbringing?..
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I admit, I was a little facetious. But the examples above prove that polygamy may result in harmful consequences for its practitioners. But so can any marriage. And it does in roughly 50% of the cases. Polygamy can also result in numerous positive outcomes. We just do not like polygamy, in general, because it goes against the established norms of a modern secular(
-ish) society. Angst and protest against face covering are analogous in approach.