From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 22:10:37 GMT
Hey Platt and DMB,
PLATT
I wonder if you object to polygamy and if so, on what grounds?
DMB says:
Rights and equality. That's what its all about. Polygamy is fundamentally
unfair because he gets 7 wives and she gets one seventh of a husband.
RICK
I do object to polygamy. Here's why... Assuming that the population of
any given society breaks down to roughly 50% men and 50% women, allowing a
person to have 7 spouses would entail depriving 6 other people of the chance
to have a spouse. Or in other words: If Platt has 7 wives, then 6 other
men will likely have none. The biological drive to mate and procreate being
as strong as it is, I don't think that those other 6 men will be very happy
with that society once they realize their chances of finding a woman there.
If the society is really lucky, those other 6 guys will just take off
(and maybe go looking for some polyandrous society that has an excess of
single women), but more likely, things are gonna get ugly! Those other 6
guys are going to withdraw their consent and support from the social
structure that permits such an absurdity, and if they can... they'll tear it
down. Such a society will be sustainable only so long as the men with
multiple wives can hold power over the men with none (who in this situation
could have 6x their numbers). That is, such a society would only be
sustainable by brute force and coercion.
As such, I think the practice of allowing people to marry more than one
person at a time is a recipe for inequality and unrest which is inconsistent
with the very concept of ordered liberty. In MOQ terms, this is to say that
such a society is inherently unstable, and thus will be a dangerous and low
quality foundation on which to build towards Dynamic Quality. Moreover, a
society like that would (obviously) be inconsistent with the concept of
democracy, which in the MOQ, is an intellectual pattern.
How do you feel about polygamy Platt?
take care,
rick
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