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Re: Preaching to the Choir
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:26:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Frank Filz wrote:
> 
> "Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message
> news:I2AHnn.17AB@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
> > 
> > > There's also the fact that marriage generally promotes monogamy,
> > 
> > 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.

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



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  Re: Preaching to the Choir
 
"Christopher Weeks" <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote in message news:I2AHnn.17AB@lugnet.com... (...) true but (...) there (...) men (...) even on (...) Well, one could still argue it promotes monogamy, even if not very successfully. Frank (22 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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