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Still Growing · 07-04-2009, 02:33 PM

Lauxa,

As for sharing insurance benefits what do you mean exactly? You can't share health insurance and with life insurance you list your beneficiary and you don't have to be married for that.

As for going on a peace corps mission I don't see how the gov't marrying you versus a church or private corp make any difference. There are plenty of people who are single who go on peace corps missions no?

As for the details, I agree that the devil is in the details. You mistook my context.

As for standard marriage contracts, I'm not so sure your standard marriage contracts now really do much good. I am saying that a private system would open the doors for improved marriage contracts that would be superior to our current system.

And finally for not making a good argument..... I don't see you or anyone else making a better argument for the current system. I'm not saying that their are not good arguments for the current system but I just don't see anyone really making any points that are solid and couldn't be answered with a private system.

Also I think that really big ideas are usually not accepted by the masses in the beginning. In life you sometimes know you've hit upon a great idea with there is a lot of resistance from people. No doubt my argument is ahead of its time and would never be passed today in most countries. The current system is the best system we can imagine. Without being able to imagine a better system in the mass mentality then its impossible to improve upon it. I do envision a better way and I do see huge flaws in our current system.

You have to remember that government institutionalized marriages are all our generation knows. If our society didn't have gov't managed marriages and they were done only by the church or organizations then people would fight like hell if the gov't wanted to take over the operation.

Whether the gov't knows I'm married or not does not stop me from saying I'm married or committing to one person if I chose. The only thing up for debate are the benefits, taxes and things of this nature. Humans are humans and if they want to apply for a visa they can, if you want to have insurance you can, if you want to create a will you can, if you want to have a contract you can. I see nothing that precludes privatization of marriage.

07-04-2009, 02:33 PM	#117 (permalink)
Still Growing Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 909	Lauxa, As for sharing insurance benefits what do you mean exactly? You can't share health insurance and with life insurance you list your beneficiary and you don't have to be married for that. As for going on a peace corps mission I don't see how the gov't marrying you versus a church or private corp make any difference. There are plenty of people who are single who go on peace corps missions no? As for the details, I agree that the devil is in the details. You mistook my context. As for standard marriage contracts, I'm not so sure your standard marriage contracts now really do much good. I am saying that a private system would open the doors for improved marriage contracts that would be superior to our current system. And finally for not making a good argument..... I don't see you or anyone else making a better argument for the current system. I'm not saying that their are not good arguments for the current system but I just don't see anyone really making any points that are solid and couldn't be answered with a private system. Also I think that really big ideas are usually not accepted by the masses in the beginning. In life you sometimes know you've hit upon a great idea with there is a lot of resistance from people. No doubt my argument is ahead of its time and would never be passed today in most countries. The current system is the best system we can imagine. Without being able to imagine a better system in the mass mentality then its impossible to improve upon it. I do envision a better way and I do see huge flaws in our current system. You have to remember that government institutionalized marriages are all our generation knows. If our society didn't have gov't managed marriages and they were done only by the church or organizations then people would fight like hell if the gov't wanted to take over the operation. Whether the gov't knows I'm married or not does not stop me from saying I'm married or committing to one person if I chose. The only thing up for debate are the benefits, taxes and things of this nature. Humans are humans and if they want to apply for a visa they can, if you want to have insurance you can, if you want to create a will you can, if you want to have a contract you can. I see nothing that precludes privatization of marriage. Last edited by Still Growing; 07-04-2009 at 02:45 PM.