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What exactly is marriage, should or can it be? [message #56982]

Sat, 16 May 2009 13:35

Blumoogle

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With the narrow definitions of marriage and the strugle for equality all over the world, I think I probably have one of the most liberal personal defenitions of what I think marriage should be:

A legally recognised mutual and chosen relationship between people who share responsibility and privalages for and of each others' welfare.

Just that. Which will immediately bring up the fact that my definition is almost exactly the same as my defenition of family, except that 'family' aren't ways legally recognised, and aren't always chosen.
It would allow homosexual marriage, polygamy, have almost no restriction on age, except that both parties must be able to give personal consent, no restriction on race, creed, almost none on beleif, some isshues of property ownership but no possibility of one person owning their partner, no obligation to equally contribute, but a suggestion thereof.

What does everyone think about my definition? Whats wrong with it, whats right with it, what don't you agree with, what would you like to keep or adopt in your own government systems and most important to me personally, how would you define marriage if it was only up to you?

I have to add that I realise the great possibility this definition has for abuse, but I beleive the greater the degree of the personal priviledge of freedom or choice humans have the corrospondingly greater the associated responsibility for those choices becomes, and the greater the degree of possibility for abuse - its just something we have to live with. We might be able to give any privilegde fewer responisibility through clever choice of words or definition, and thus limit the chance of abuse, but such inbalance inevitably seems to fail throughout history, or the natural balance asserts itself despite anything we do and the possible abuse still happens. I'm willing to live with it, while still working to prevent it whenever I can.

[Updated on: Sat, 16 May 2009 13:54]

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		What exactly is marriage, should or can it be? By: Blumoogle on Sat, 16 May 2009 13:35
		Re: What exactly is marriage, should or can it be? By: acam on Sat, 16 May 2009 17:22
		Re: What exactly is marriage, should or can it be? By: CallMePaul on Sat, 16 May 2009 17:50
		Re: What exactly is marriage, should or can it be? By: Macky on Sun, 17 May 2009 01:12
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