Your views on MARRIAGE

[Dystopia]

Most laws regarding multiple parties are about other contracts like regular obligations, debts and so on - Marriage, kinda like employment, is an institution that has a specific contract with specific/different rules, so it's a bad analogy. Marriage and family law are not contract law, and both work differently - In the latter there's more freedom to privately decide what you want, while in marriage there are a priori rules you can't refuse like the commitment it requires to the other person.

I can see where the tribes argument comes from, but honestly if I based my sociery on what tribes do in some remote location I could justify horrible things like cannibalism as well. I'm not concerned about what other cultures do but what about my culture tells me.

Marriage and family isn't the same thing actually, and as far as our legal system is considered, marriage too is about the "obligations" between the involved parties, so I don't see how it is so different than other contracts. Could you please illustrate with an example?

Also I am not suggesting we do the same stuff the tribes do, rather I am saying it's not a new idea and it happens and the world hasn't ended

What do you mean by our system? Do you mean commonlaw? Or legal system?

Yes marriage is a contract, but it is a very specific one because it requires more obligations than the average contract and it is far more complex - Signing a contract where you swear to buy something for X value is not the same in terms of effects on your life as signing a contract sharing yourself and your goods with somebody until divorce (or for eternity) - Each contract has its regulations, so obviously what applies to other contracts doesn't apply necessarily to marriage.

Do you want an example? Well in my country regular contract law gives you immense freedom to sign what you want with whom you want, whether it's to buy or sell, donate, buy property, etc - The law makes general statements and then parties decide what to do - But when it comes to marriage, the law says with precision what you can and can't do and unlike other contracts you can't make shit up - Either you accept what the law proposes as a marriage or you don't, there are regulations you can't change - For other civil contracts freedom is higher and usually the law does not force you to many things, you can simply make shit up and do as you please. This is only true for legal systems based on Roman law and not commonlaw ones. I think in the latter legalising poligamy is much easier.