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Fair, I get where you're going here. But the thing is, words by themselves can cause emotional/social harm as well, and those are legal. Actions done with others can harm people for irrational reasons too. So we need to be careful that when we define the justification for laws, we don't use a...

Not planning for it to fail, but most religions have rules under which divorce is acceptable. For example, a catholic marriage (from what I recall from catholic school) wouldn't allow for divorce in cases of adultery. Others would allow for it. Which is why the prenup should be a standard thing...

The problem with that (and the chief problem people had with it) is that you don't get to choose your penalties or other options. The one size fits all-ness of it doesn't match up with what people (or religions, as they have different standards) want. Some want the option to opt out if stuff...

Pregnancy? Rape actually causing enough injury when resisted that medical professors are trained to recognize it? I'd say compensation, not everything. Really, marriage (legally speaking only) ought to just be a contract, with terms for violating it dependent on what the people involved in...

This is the reason I've always laughed at people saying demographics is destiny or white replacement theory. The people not reproducing are by and large leftists or leftist leaning, which seems like a self solving problem to me.

... Murder is wrong because it violates another person rights. Consensual poly doesn't. The other party agreed to this. No party was harmed. Murder isn't illegal because of some nebulous feeling that it is wrong. It's illegal because it actively harms another human. Same with hitting someone...

.... I did read, and it didn't help. You first said that one was no less wrong than the other, which a) isn't the case when it comes to murder law, and isn't the case here. Second, saying it's the government's business to butt in on people's private lives to regulate what they do with full...

What does murder have to do with this case? Like at all? The difference between murder and polygamy is freaking huge, including the major difference: consent.