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Originally Posted by techres  Bigamy is likely less damaging than adultery, but I find it difficult to believe that any 3-4+ person arraignment can be as stable as a family requires. Perhaps in the context of a community that can force cohesion it is possible, but lacking that, bigamy (or "polyamory") is just a mess of divided love, etc.
At the same time, and the only thing that really matters here, is wether the state has any business in it at all. Frankly, it does not. Adults are free to do things with other consenting adults.
If adultery is no crime, then I cannot see how bigamy is.
Much of this arguing would cease if we just did not have the State (gov't) in the game of marriage. Frankly, having the state involved does as much damage to religion as religion does to the state. |
I imagine one of the main reasons bigamy isn't allowed is because of the benefits married couples get with regard to inheritence, visitation, medical decisions, property ownership and taxation. But it could also have something to do with harming undesireable males.
