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My point is that people react to incentives. At the moment the incentives are stacked up to keep people unmarried, childless and miserable. We have control over
by realjhol 4y ago
My point is that people react to incentives. At the moment the incentives are stacked up to keep people unmarried, childless and miserable. We have control over the incentives, so lets choose incentives designed to make people happy.
- blacksmith_tb 4y agoI can agree with that - also I think it answers to the 'forced' aspect better, instead of a law making marriages permanent, incentives that made people more willing to stay in them seem less intrusive (though personally I am unconvinced that would make individuals happier overall, or be an obvious social good).
- realjhol 4y agoFrom my own experience, my marriage went through a rough patch. Though for us, divorce is not something we believe is permissible in most cases. This forced us to work through our problems with the help of a therapist. With lots of hard work and time, we were eventually able to resolve all of our issues. Our marriage is now better than ever - we are happier, more intimate and better able to communicate than we ever were before. Not having a exit hatch pushed us to persevere with our problems. I think if we had had less of a sense of comittment, then one or other of us would have bailed, and caused both of us and our kids a huge amount of suffering.