07-01-2013, 05:54 PM
(07-01-2013, 03:24 PM)eppie Wrote: Because it is an unequal type of living together. Well....maybe theoretically also one woman could marry several guys at the same time, but we all know that that is not the deal with polygamy right?
Polygamy is institute in societies in which women are second rank citizens. So the same reason we don't allow children under 18 to get married.
The historical legacy of polygamy is pretty ugly, and in general, it does tend to exist in societies where women's rights are suppressed. But that's an argument by correlation. Is there any reason groups of consenting adults should not be allowed to marry one another? It certainly defeats the second argument: We don't allow kids to marry because they can't legally consent, not because it's associated with societies we don't like. Also, why you can't marry goats, or airplanes. The two words "consenting adults" do a lot of heavy lifting.
-Jester