(December 3, 2010 at 9:07 pm)lrh9 Wrote: What's wrong with an imbalance? There are imbalances everywhere. There is nothing that can prove an imbalance is wrong. In fact, people naturally chose imbalance. If it is a life and death decision between me and someone else chances are I'm going to try to do something to ensure that I live instead of the other person.
But let's use a hypothetical to discuss this. Say that you are in an accident and left in a coma. You are taken to a private hospital. One of their rules is that only one person may see someone in the hospital at a time, and each person is allowed to have an hour. Say that your wounds are fatal. You are going to die within the next hour. Say that I come to the hospital to visit you, and I arrive before your hypothetical partner whom you love very much. How would your system work to ensure that your partner got to spend your last hour alive with you without giving your partner or your status as a couple any preferential legal treatment over me? Or would you be such a bastard as to not give a damn who was in that room?
You've missed the point but, sure, I'll play this game.
I love many people, why should my wife get that hour over my mother or children? And since this is a discussion on government given rights to married groups in preferance to single men/women, why the hell does the government even have a say in this? Frack that, they have NO idea who I would want there beside me so with their intervention odds are they would guarentee someone I didn't want was there.
Regardless, on the actual topic, the point was that if we look at three households, one has a single man living in it and the other a married couple and the other an unmarried couple who are just there to save rent. If the houses and other costs are proportionate to the number of people living in them and are essentially treated as equal in every way as far as cost go. Why should the technically married couple have to spend less than a single man or unmarried couple?
Since I am not sure if I explained that right.. With all else being equal, why should a marrage contract make you a higher class of citizen and give you benefits that a single adult or unmarried couple are denied.
