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-9 Post author: h-H 06 June 2012 07:57PM

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 07 June 2012 03:55:41PM *  6 points [-]

My position is that polygamy should be tolerated, but not celebrated (or recognized by law). My reasons:

1) It will probably lead to a shortage of women, as some men hog all the women for themselves. Women are more willing to share a man than vice-versa. (Whether this is cultural or biological is irrelevant. Either way you'll end up with a shortage of women.)

2) Poly marriages are not as stable as two person relationships. The more premises an argument has, the less likely it is to be sound; so too for marriage. Dan Savage says that he's been to number of "poly weddings", but has never been to a poly tenth anniversary party.

Comment author: listic 09 June 2012 08:26:16PM *  4 points [-]

Poly marriages are not as stable as two person relationships.

Maybe they don't have to be?

Maybe in the progressively less rigid modern society it is progressively less fit for marriages to stay stable?