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Re: Religion and Science
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 13 Dec 2000 03:10:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Low posts before he's finished, the idiot:
> > (snipping some intereseting points of discussion to focus on something I
> haven't really considered before)
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> > 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?>
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> 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)?
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> What did the first humans do (talking about the juvenile chimp types, not
> Adam and Eve)? Any comparative primatologists out there?
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> 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 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 _Friends_ (and what about consensual incest anyway?))), just
that I don't think it would work very well for most people. Any thoughts?
--DaveL
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| Dave Low wrote in message ... (...) happily (...) (or (...) Exactly Dave. Polyamory is something suited to some people, certainly not all, probably not most: but most people never even consider it because it's outside the social norm. No family (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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