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You're using the underage girl card to make it easier. Take it out of the issue. In fact, take a completely opposite situation – an older man marrying several older women in a community, where older women outnumber older men significantly. Everyone's happy. Why not then?
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Yes, but that's not what happens. Polygamy patently drives down the age women get married. You can create a happy scenario for burqa's as well...established women deciding with no coercion that they want to faithfully fulfill a more pious life. I know that's not what happens all the time. You know that's not what happens. But we already have laws protecting women from coercion and what is essentially kidnapping. It should be our responsibility to try to enforce those laws rather than add new laws that make the problem worse. If we had no laws against polygamy it would be legal to create detrimental societal conditions. There would be nothing protecting the rest of us from a more violent and less productive society.