That's a fair question, aspiring. Having been raised and still being a practicing Catholic, my views were undeniably formed by the Church, but I'd like to think that, as a human with free will, I'm not necessarily bound by their ways. I think they should accept, for instance, the legality of abortion and focus all of that effort into ministry and giving people the tools to eliminate the need for such a procedure. However, I tend to give the Church the benefit of the doubt in many cases since they have such a long history and since the essence of morality doesn't change over the years. What once was right at a fundamental level doesn't all of a sudden become wrong and vice versa. Society's views can change, but most of the time you're talking about changes in people's tolerance for what lies outside their normal expectations.
In the case of monogamy, I just don't see how you can possibly separate us from our natural instincts when it comes to sex. Survival is one of the most fundamental instincts we have and humans are going to fight for it tooth and nail if necessary. If you eliminate a social structure that greatly reduces (and ideally eliminates) sexual competition between males, you've effectively deconstructed civilization by exactly that same amount.
To add to my previous post, if you increase sexual competition between males, you're also going to make females much more protective and defensive (especially of their kids), which would have the effect of breaking down communication, especially between opposite sexes.
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