SG, I just went back over the entire thread to try and pick out your arguments for ending marriage. Here is what I am hearing:
- It's not necessary
- It's expensive for society
- Privatizing marriage would produce a better system
Did you have others?
People have been debating the necessity and expense and pointing out all the issues that a well-thought-out private system would need to address. You seem to have a free market fundamentalist attitude, a faith that free market will always devise a better solution than government, but not everyone shares your faith and without a more detailed proposal as well as a better analysis of the costs of the current system it's hard to debate whether a free market solution would be "better" (cheaper, more efficient) or not.