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Topic	Why don't you have a wife PotD?
ParanoidObsessive 10/04/18 1:50:12 PM #43:	minervo posted... ParanoidObsessive posted... minervo posted... Couples who don't intend to have children never need to get married. There are a lot of people in the world who would very strongly disagree with you. Key word: need. The only time you would absolutely need to get married is to raise children in a stable environment. But if you want to focus so strongly on the word "need", then there's literally no reason to get married, ever. You can easily provide a stable environment to raise children outside of marriage (and many people do). In fact, there have been multiple times in history when marriage wasn't even that important outside of dynastic alliances involving large-scale property possession - and that's not even necessary at this point because contract law is a thing that exists. Someone could argue that marriage can lead to valuable financial benefits or couple/familial rights, but those are flaws that exist in a society that already over-emphasizes marriage as a desirable thing, and could easily be changed to remove them (again, contract law is a very useful thing). We could easily outlaw marriage tomorrow and life would continue very much the same as it's ever been. We don't get married because we NEED to. We get married because we WANT to. And plenty of people WANT to get married in spite of having no interest in ever having kids, for whatever reasons they might justify it with. (And in some cases, WE don't get married at all, because we consider the entire institution to be something of a farce at this point.) --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:909951241] in Why don't ... [t:77063143]...</cite> <quote><cite>minervo posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote><cite>minervo posted...</cite> <quote>Couples who don't intend to have children never need to get married.</quote> There are a lot of people in the world who would very strongly disagree with you.</quote> Key word: need. The only time you would absolutely need to get married is to raise children in a stable environment.</quote> But if you want to focus so strongly on the word "need", then there's literally no reason to get married, ever. You can easily provide a stable environment to raise children outside of marriage (and many people do). In fact, there have been multiple times in history when marriage wasn't even that important outside of dynastic alliances involving large-scale property possession - and that's not even necessary at this point because contract law is a thing that exists. Someone could argue that marriage can lead to valuable financial benefits or couple/familial rights, but those are flaws that exist in a society that already over-emphasizes marriage as a desirable thing, and could easily be changed to remove them (again, contract law is a very useful thing). We could easily outlaw marriage tomorrow and life would continue very much the same as it's ever been. We don't get married because we NEED to. We get married because we WANT to. And plenty of people WANT to get married in spite of having no interest in ever having kids, for whatever reasons they might justify it with. (And in some cases, WE don't get married at all, because we consider the entire institution to be something of a farce at this point.) --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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