(January 6, 2024 at 2:05 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(January 6, 2024 at 1:57 pm)neil Wrote: I'm totally fine with you expressing your opinion about this & what I have to say, but I am not religious, and I actively support getting all aspects of religion out of laws, and the state/government.
That's great. But if you want to posit inequality as the basis for a sound marriage, I'll need to see more than just an unsupported opinion. The most successful marriages I've seen have been based on compromise in a partnership of equals.
Yes, I'm not saying that such marriages don't exist; I pointed out in the OP that almost 17% of marriages are happy.
My point of contention - if you may want to call it that - is that divorce ought to be extremely rare - way, way less than 50%.
I have a similar sentiment about the prison population in the US; that itself ought to also be extremely low & the fact that that's so high means that our criminal & legal system is also, in a similar sense, a failure. BTW I'm also interested in exploring the role of religion being behind the shaping and forming of the nation's legal & system of criminal punishment, and what can be done to remove those religious aspects from this too.
