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**Kayacterype** · 06-01-2010, 06:53 PM

Freedom wise; I'm all for it. It should be legal. I love freedoms!
Equality, sharing wise; I'm against it. If it gets popular, it might create more problems than it's worth. I think we have examples of it already. Years back, all Mormons were polygamists, now only small excommunicated groups remain poly. I'd swear they have their black secrets, more than half of young men, or just men, can't find Mormon wives. They have to look for one outside and bring to Mormon faith. Mathematically speaking, if 50% of man have 2 wives then other 50 have none. This can't go on for long. If we had wars every generation and were losing half the male population every time, then yes it would make good sense.

It all depends how widespread polygamy is/becomes. If it's just 0.01% of men having two wives, there shouldn't be any serious unbalance problem. If it's 50% of men, then it will be problematic. But I cannot envision a modern society where half of the men have enough wealth (and energy and patience) to support two or more wives. Only a few very rich (and attractive, I would suppose) men could do it. Even if more could, there should be enough wives who want to share their husband. I believe that this will never be more than a tiny percentage of the population. This is why I am not opposed to legalising polygamy. But I am not opposed to suppress completely all marriages and have only civil unions instead. That's the way modern Western society is going anyway.

06-01-2010, 06:53 PM	#2
Kayacterype Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 397 Senior Member	Freedom wise; I'm all for it. It should be legal. I love freedoms! Equality, sharing wise; I'm against it. If it gets popular, it might create more problems than it's worth. I think we have examples of it already. Years back, all Mormons were polygamists, now only small excommunicated groups remain poly. I'd swear they have their black secrets, more than half of young men, or just men, can't find Mormon wives. They have to look for one outside and bring to Mormon faith. Mathematically speaking, if 50% of man have 2 wives then other 50 have none. This can't go on for long. If we had wars every generation and were losing half the male population every time, then yes it would make good sense. It all depends how widespread polygamy is/becomes. If it's just 0.01% of men having two wives, there shouldn't be any serious unbalance problem. If it's 50% of men, then it will be problematic. But I cannot envision a modern society where half of the men have enough wealth (and energy and patience) to support two or more wives. Only a few very rich (and attractive, I would suppose) men could do it. Even if more could, there should be enough wives who want to share their husband. I believe that this will never be more than a tiny percentage of the population. This is why I am not opposed to legalising polygamy. But I am not opposed to suppress completely all marriages and have only civil unions instead. That's the way modern Western society is going anyway.
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