should polygamy be legal?

[Moonbeam]

It is not legal because there is nothing inherently discriminatory about it, everybody gets one partner, or none, no exceptions and if it were legal it would be socially destabilizing. I would have a huge number of wives and others would go wanting.

 

[Zebo]

Yeah a lot of good that does where you can have 4, all the other men sign up to be jihadis.

 

[Infohawk]

It is not legal because there is nothing inherently discriminatory about it, everybody gets one partner, or none, no exceptions and if it were legal it would be socially destabilizing. I would have a huge number of wives and others would go wanting.

Sorry but morality and legality does not revolve around discrimination. For example, murder is illegal and yet there's nothing discriminatory about it. Also, your last argument could be used against gay marriage. A gay marriage also takes potential mates away from women. Are you going to come back and say that no women would want to marry a gay man? Well some do and you can also say that most men wouldn't want to marry a women who would choose polygamy either. Anyway, since when are people some commodity that are required to be shared? Should parents share their third kids with couples who can't have any?

 

[wuliheron]

It is not legal because there is nothing inherently discriminatory about it, everybody gets one partner, or none, no exceptions and if it were legal it would be socially destabilizing. I would have a huge number of wives and others would go wanting.

No doubt that's why you spend so much time here at this website, because the ladies just can't get enough of you.

 

[Moonbeam]

Infohawk: Sorry but morality and legality does (do) not revolve around discrimination.

M: What kind of shit is this? Are you totally off your rocker? Do you even think about what you say? Do you mean revolve like planets? Jesus Christ, you're ass has got the chatters.

I: For example, murder is illegal and yet there's nothing discriminatory about it.

M: Doh!

I: Also, your last argument could be used against gay marriage. A gay marriage also takes potential mates away from women.

M: So you are completely adverse to rational thinking. A gay marriage can be a woman with a woman. Every marriage takes exactly two people off the eligibility table. No discrimination.

M: Are you going to come back and say that no women would want to marry a gay man?

M: No I was going to comeback and say the policeman's beard is half constructed and pumpkins don't fly in high wind.

I: Well some do and you can also say that most men wouldn't want to marry a women who would choose polygamy either.

M: Not when I have pumpkins on my mind.

I: Anyway, since when are people some commodity that are required to be shared?

M: You tell me. It's your joke.

I: Should parents share their third kids with couples who can't have any?

M: Your parents obviously should have.

 

[Moonbeam]

No doubt that's why you spend so much time here at this website, because the ladies just can't get enough of you.

Not at all. I have a line out the door to give me blow jobs as I post. It's why I talk a lot about joy.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally Posted by wuliheron
No doubt that's why you spend so much time here at this website, because the ladies just can't get enough of you.

Not at all. I have a line out the door to give me blow jobs as I post. It's why I talk a lot about joy.

Yeah but that may not be necessarily ladies :whiste:

 

[wuliheron]

Yeah but that may not be necessarily ladies :whiste:

More like bill collectors ready to tear him a new one. :biggrin:

 

[Moonbeam]

More like bill collectors ready to tear him a new one. :biggrin:

You could call them bill collectors, all right, if by a bill you mean my pecker.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Polygamy? No.

Polyamory? Ideally, yes it should be legal. However, realistically society could not support it without a drastic shift in how the entire society is setup.

 

[piasabird]

I have seen enough examples of how grown men want to marry 16 year old girls to know that polygamy is ripe for abuse of women. You might ask yourself why there are so many angry muslims? A lot of Muslims practice a form of polygamy. Under sharia law a Man can have up to 3 wives. Such a system is bound to lead to the debasement of women.

Even though I am a Mormon, I could never support polygamy. Once men get a little power, they tend to become abusive. Having multiple wives would probably lead to a rise in welfare money being payed to families with multiple wives.

This might make sense on some levels when marriage does not result in children. In Asian culture men might take on a concubine if their wife was not able to produce offspring. However, I dont see how this would make the woman happy that was barren or unable to have children.

 

[piasabird]

Men can legally have as many sex partners as they want in this country. They only difference is that men are suppose to take responsibility for their children and they often do not. Why do you think we have so many one parent families?

The answer is that the government is paying women to have babies.

 

[OutHouse]

Yes it should be legal

 

[OutHouse]

Assisted suicide?

Better yet, two adults consent to rape and kill a child. That's okay with you? :hmm:

Wow are you retarded or just stupid?

 

[ShawnD1]

LOL at the idea that rich people "deserve" more wives or "deserve" more of anything.

But otherwise I am not aware of many rational arguments for not allowing it among consenting adults. The practical reason we don't have it and probably will not have it legalized is that most free women would not choose it. Polygamy is mostly practiced in male-dominated societies where women have no freedom.

One major legal problem I could see is that is would fuck up how things are divided. Right now you get married and half of your shit belongs to your new husband or wife. If you brought a third person into it, you would need all parties to agree that instead of 1/2 they now get 1/3. To bring in a fourth person, all would need to agree that they get 1/4.

Legal or not, it would be impossible to get anyone to sign that. Suppose I married some rich broad. She wants to bring in another man. I don't even care if she's fucking other dudes, I don't want to give up my share so I only get 1/3 instead of 1/2. How do you split up the kids? That would be a god awful nightmare. Even with 2 people it can drag on for years. What about 3 people? What about 4 people fighting over 3 kids? What happens if 1 of the 3 people wants a divorce? Do they get one of the kids? Do they get 1/3 of the house and force the couple to sell the house? There are so many legal problems with this that it makes my balls hurt.

 

[JumBie]

Polygamy was regarded as the norm in ancient times, many religions and many civilizations did not look down upon it, in fact they saw it as a form of status. Objectively and legally I see no wrong it in, personally however, I frown upon it.

 

[ShawnD1]

Polygamy was regarded as the norm in ancient times, many religions and many civilizations did not look down upon it, in fact they saw it as a form of status. Objectively and legally I see no wrong it in, personally however, I frown upon it.

What we need is a society where cheating is socially acceptable. That way you don't "settle" for shitty trailer trash retard husbands and wives just because they're the only thing available. The middle and upper classes are fucking everything that moves and the trailer trash bimbos die from loneliness.

 

[soulcougher73]

I think id be fine with it being legal. As long as all are consenting adults.

 

[piasabird]

There are some communities in different places like Utah where polygamy is practiced. One interesting thing that was happening is that men wanted and lusted after younger women. Also Males became unwanted as offspring because men wanted more children and male offspring just created competition for the existing men. So often youg men are kicked out of the home as soon as they reached adulthood. This does not make for a civilized way of living. You can see how this could lead to a type of slavery for women.

 

[shira]

Polygamy as practiced in the United States is a sure-fire recipe for the abuse of both underage girls and underage boys (the boys because they're kicked out of the community and forced to fend for themselves since these communities can't tolerate the competition for wives represented by excess males).

Furthermore, all current laws related to married couples would need to be either abandoned or distorted beyond recognition in order to accommodate group marriages (because that's what we're really talking about here: one or more males married to one or more females).

Imagine the following scenario: Man A is married to Woman B and Woman C. Woman B decides to marry Man D, who is A's son. Is that marriage legal? What's B's relationship to C? If B has a child, who's the legal father - must genetic tests be performed whenever a baby is born? If A gets health insurance through his company, is D automatically eligible for coverage?

If you think the above scenario is complicated, imagine group marriages involving hundreds or thousands of individuals.

There are too many fatal flaws resulting from polygamy/group-marriage, and they far outweigh any benefits.

 

[polarmystery]

snip.

Help me understand why the legality of the matter has merit to what happens in nature by default? (ie: rampant infidelity)

 

[Lemon law]

Sadly, polygamy simple is not congruent with human biology.

Using existing sexual practices, the probability of a males off spring is about 55%. The probability of a female is 45%. But the time the new born reaches adulthood, especially in second or third world countries, the sex ratio gets much closer to 50 50. Which implies a monogamous marriage as best fitting human reproduction.

But wait, as modern medical advances allow parents to select the sex of the child, by aborting females and carrying males to full term, I can only predict social instability for those societies. And for the few surviving females, it may become socially necessary for the females to take on two or more husbands.

Of course as a die hard male chauvinistic pig, I know bigamy is illegal, so surely 3 or more wives should be legal. Of course every time I get such ideas, my wife bops me over the head with a rolling pin. So please don't tell me wife I just posted this. What she does know won't hurt me.

 

[ShawnD1]

Polygamy as practiced in the United States is a sure-fire recipe for the abuse of both underage girls and underage boys (the boys because they're kicked out of the community and forced to fend for themselves since these communities can't tolerate the competition for wives represented by excess males).

Or you could have a woman with multiple husbands. Maybe the actor who played Alice in that movie Twilight would take me on as her second husband :wub:

 

[werepossum]

WWYBYWL?

(Who Were You Before You Were Lobotomized?)

 

[Infohawk]

One major legal problem I could see is that is would fuck up how things are divided. Right now you get married and half of your shit belongs to your new husband or wife. If you brought a third person into it, you would need all parties to agree that instead of 1/2 they now get 1/3. To bring in a fourth person, all would need to agree that they get 1/4.

Legal or not, it would be impossible to get anyone to sign that. Suppose I married some rich broad. She wants to bring in another man. I don't even care if she's fucking other dudes, I don't want to give up my share so I only get 1/3 instead of 1/2. How do you split up the kids? That would be a god awful nightmare. Even with 2 people it can drag on for years. What about 3 people? What about 4 people fighting over 3 kids? What happens if 1 of the 3 people wants a divorce? Do they get one of the kids? Do they get 1/3 of the house and force the couple to sell the house? There are so many legal problems with this that it makes my balls hurt.

Nah. People made the same arguments gay marriage. We already have legal arrangements for large groups of people and it's been around forever. Partnership law is just one example. Also, you forget that polygamy is already legal in some countries and their countries don't fall apart because of it.