(July 10, 2015 at 4:25 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote:(July 10, 2015 at 10:33 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: The causation is indirect. Polygamy itself doesn't increase the chances of std, but the fact that you're more likely to be exposed to a cheating spouse does.
Which is why I don't think its a good argument against polygamy being legal, what we are really talking about is promiscuous behavior being the problem.
And do you want to make promiscuity illegal?
Also, the original comment I made about STDs was NOT as an argument against polygamy. It was a minor point about a mistake in someone else's post. You have made it into a major digression.
For my argument against polygamy, see:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-34534-po...#pid986067
Just a quick heads up: the argument is not a moral argument against polygamy, but a pragmatic one. If you can work out all the details satisfactorily (as indicated in that post), then I will be happy to change my mind. But right now, no one has come up with anything reasonable to make it work in the real world. It would be very complicated (given that divorce is legal), and so the details need to be worked out before we start issuing marriage licenses for threesomes and foursomes and etc.
In ancient times, when women were essentially property, that "worked" in a way. But that involves regarding women as property, and for my part, I am unwilling to do that for the sake of people wanting to have more than one spouse. Indeed, I do not have sufficient vocabulary of obscenities to properly express my feelings for anyone who would want that.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.