Reply #27: That's what I think... [View All]

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I don't know what the big-deal is about?!

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If society wants to insure it's survival via social engineering then that also seems valid to me and it can do so by giving tax breaks to unions of male and female with children. Anyway, the two things seem seperate to me...the soverignity of a consensual union and the needs of a group to survive.

I believe in soverignty...that's why I believe in nationalism...the individual, respect for the individual leading to respect for the aggregate (or state). It would be really boring if everyone did everything the same way...consensual unions as a political response to human need ought to be allowed to play_out.

As a SF fan, I can only say that the coherence of the response to the stimuli (lack of resources/dangerous situations/non-linear structuring/prioratized values...and all the other things great science fiction deals with) can make or break the "plot".

I don't see anything wrong with polygamy, either. It's not a moral calculus, but a complex interaction...and mother nature knows best.

maybe more than 2 cents worth...