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> WTF do you care what three forty year old people do in their own home Have you read ANYTHING about these polygamous communities? They produce cast off boys
by kingkongrevenge 18y ago
> WTF do you care what three forty year old people do in their own home
Have you read ANYTHING about these polygamous communities? They produce cast off boys and a trickle of 15 year old girls fleeing rape by 50 year old men. I would argue these are long term consequences of polygamy itself, not features of communities that happen to practice it.
- tdavis 18y agoAnecdotal evidence is my favorite flavor of evidence.
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoI read your argument as: insular religious extremists do bad things! Therefore, we should also deny thinking and responsible adults freedom to live as they please. If anything, the lesson is that making something illegal pushes it underground, which makes it harder to protect those that may suffer from it in addition to punishing those that would gain from it. This is a lesson demonstrated over and over again -- there are even comments about it in the Tao Te Ching.
- kingkongrevenge 18y agoThere are of course non-isolated societies in the world that allow polygamy. You wouldn't want to live in any of them.
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoI'd like you to a cite a source about where I would and would not want to live.
- RK 18y agoSo you think only gays should have the right of polygamous marriage?
- run4yourlives 18y agoYou're missing his point. That has nothing to do with polygamy and everything to do with being a wacko religious sect.