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Re: Preaching to the Choir
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:07:22 GMT
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"Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
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> > There's also the fact that marriage generally promotes monogamy,
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> I'm wondering how commonly held this view is. It doesn't strike me as • true but
> I don't have any specific information with which to refute it. I guess • there
> was a big study based on a survey in which sixty-some percent of married • men
> admitted to infidelity (and one presumes there were those who would not, • even on
> an anonymous survey), but I'm not sure that's exactly refutation either.
Well, one could still argue it promotes monogamy, even if not very
successfully.
Frank
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| (...) Sure, but the root point was that it helps society somehow. I wonder. And, people in other parts of the world actually do support female genital mutilation for the same reasons...and more convincingly, I think. Chris (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm wondering how commonly held this view is. It doesn't strike me as true but I don't have any specific information with which to refute it. I guess there was a big study based on a survey in which sixty-some percent of married men admitted (...) (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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