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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Basically that's what marriage does now, except that all those things you would have to write up separately are codified in a vast multitude of laws and are granted automatically at signing.
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Right.
But the vast multitude of laws inherent in the marriage laws are not necessarily applicable to every marriage/every relationship. Therein lies the rub.
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Honestly the biggest problem with the institution of marriage is that people are unwilling to mentally and emotionally disassociate the religious and personal aspects of marriage from the government benefits.
If it is a legal contract there should be no gender restrictions on it.
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Correct on both accounts.
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I'm not opposed to your ideal EW but I think it's far beyond what's plausible in the forseeable future.
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What's plausible is not always moral. For me, the intervention of government into marriage is a moral issue (and not in the weird Christian assumptions). Presumably, one may always be pragmatic but I don't feel thats always a simple assertion.
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