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Everything is political, unless you presume that laws come from nature or from god. If we 're all defacto equal vs marriage, then i could marry my 6-year old co
by return0 13y ago
Everything is political, unless you presume that laws come from nature or from god. If we 're all defacto equal vs marriage, then i could marry my 6-year old cousin.
- ubernostrum 13y agoIf we 're all defacto equal vs marriage, then i could marry my 6-year old cousin. Just so you know, the official slippery-slope argument is "I could marry my horse".
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- return0 13y agoi was referring to the appeal to nature rather than to a slippery slope
- adl 13y agoIs your 6-year old cousin a consenting adult?
- notdonspaulding 13y agoWhy should the majority opinion get to say who's an adult and who's not? Aren't we taking away the rights of minors to marry by claiming that they're relationship would somehow be different to a traditional one? You anti-minor-marriage bigot you. (To be clear, this is sarcasm hopefully in the service of making a point. I am not arguing for marriage between adults and minors.)
- timtas 13y agoC'mon now, illustrations of a slippery slope oughtn't start so far down the hill. So, what about a post-menopausal mother marrying her adult son? If "consenting adults" is the standard, it must be sanctioned as "marriage," yes? For the record, I'm not really against gay marriage, but I am staunchly against inconsistent reasoning in service of realpolitik.