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Marriage confers legal and economical benefits to the parties involved such as citizenship and tax benefits. Assuming society wants to keep providing these bene
by henrikschroder 17y ago
Marriage confers legal and economical benefits to the parties involved such as citizenship and tax benefits. Assuming society wants to keep providing these benefits, but still control them, allowing polygamy would make that job harder. And then you could imagine that a cost-benefit analysis of that would show that it's not worth it, i.e. it's cheaper to ignore the people wanting it than having to deal with the possible fraud.
- ahi 17y agoI prefer: it's cheaper to ignore marriage than have to deal with possible fraud. Legally marriage was important because it conferred rights to spouses (mainly wives) that they otherwise wouldn't have had. Now that everyone at least nominally has the same rights, what's the point?