RE: Do you support the legalisation of polyagmy and polyandry
May 24, 2012 at 5:57 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2012 at 6:00 am by Ben Davis.)
(May 23, 2012 at 7:21 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: In principle, I have no argument with this. In practice, we live within the constraints of existing law until such time that it changes.
I know what you mean and I'm sure that plenty of people also feel the pressure of such constraints. That's one of my problems with legal marriage: it forces people into certain decisions.
That said, in the UK, if you can afford the legal fees, you can have documents drawn up which do everything that legal marriage does, granting the named parties all the rights & responsibilities afforded to married couples. You don't get the tax breaks though (which is my point about 'incentivisation' or 'bribery' as it might be considered). There's no need for marriage which makes the legal institution thoroughly unethical because its only unique property is to create discrimination against certain types of relationship.
Sum ergo sum
