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Subject: 
Re: Polyamory
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:41:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eric Joslin writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:

I think that the reason we surround ourselves with social relationships of
various kinds is to satisfy needs.  (Needs in the soft sense, really more
appropriately called desires.)  I agree with Kevin that it is highly unlikely
that anyone ever finds one person who satisfies all those needs.  And it is
foolish to force yourself into this arbitrary moral framework that insists
that
monogamy is the only right way of doing it.  Why not open yourself up to
multiple lovers?

Not to put too fine a point on it, Chris, but given the above, isn't your
accusing me of having an attitude, and asking who the hell I think I am to • make
judgements, and calling my use of the term "copping out" a bad thing just a
little, tiny, wee bit hypocritical?

Um...No.

I don't even see the link.  Are you reacting to the word foolish?  How would
you feel if I replaced the word foolish with 'probably a bad idea' or
'needless'?

Chris



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  Re: Polyamory
 
(...) Really? You don't see the link between asking what place of mine it is to judge another person's relationship choices, and then saying that seeking a monogamous relationship is "foolish" (or below, "needless", or "probably a bad" idea? (...) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Polyamory
 
(...) Not to put too fine a point on it, Chris, but given the above, isn't your accusing me of having an attitude, and asking who the hell I think I am to make judgements, and calling my use of the term "copping out" a bad thing just a little, tiny, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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