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Re: Religion and Science
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 13 Dec 2000 03:02:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kevin Wilson writes:
> (snipping some intereseting points of discussion to focus on something I >haven't really considered before)
> Polyamory too: this is a religious shibboleth which spilled over into law
> (like so many things - eg Sunday closing) and hasn't yet un-spilled, but >there's no non-religious reason why consenting adults should not form >families with more than one adult. <more than two adults?>
I wonder about this -- maybe there are good sociological/behavioral reasons
for 1+1 couples making better families (still a hot topic in Utah as far as
I know). What type of marriage has been more common around the world,
couples or multiple partners? Where does serial monogamy/monandry fit in
(where you have an exclusive relationship with one person for some time, but
several people through your lifetime)?
What did the first humans do (talking about the juvenile chimp types, not
Adam and Eve)? Any comparative primatologists out there?
My feeling is that most humans are best suited to long-term pairings, for
resource sharing efficiency and stability of the relationship (not to
mention falling in love and wanting to be with someone forever). This is not
to sayAny thoughts?
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Low posts before he's finished, the idiot: (...) This is not to say that well-adjusted people couldn't and don't live happily as a single person or in open relationships (or as a triple or quadruple (or sextuple cf (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I don't think so. I think that it's pretty clear that the model that is less popular in North America now than it once was, with grandparents hanging around helping is superior to the two-parent-and-2.3-kids model. In general, larger natural (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Steve Thomas wrote in message ... (...) couple (...) disagreement. The widest gulf is in sexual "morals". The requirement to get married in order to have sex, for example, is one that many people nowadays don't subscribe to. Various Christian sects (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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