Should polygamy be illegal?

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XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG said:
It irks me that you missed an important distinction
The question conflates private consensual agreements between adults and state marriage as a bundle of legal privileges
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No it doesn't, OP is specifically asking why polygamy is illegal while acknowledging that polyamory isn't. Nobody's kicking down doors to stop anyone from banging two hoochies at the same time, so it's safe to assume he's asking solely about state marriages.
 
Dyn said:
No it doesn't, OP is specifically asking why polygamy is illegal while acknowledging that polyamory isn't. Nobody's kicking down doors to stop anyone from banging two hoochies at the same time, so it's safe to assume he's asking solely about state marriages.
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Yes, OP is asking about polygamy being illegal. "Illegal" can mean at least three different things. One, banning plural arrangements as such. Two, refusing to treat them as state-recognized marriages. Three, refusing to redesign a two-people legal package around multiple spouses. If you don't separate these things, the discussion turns into people smuggling abuse cases and administrative inconvenience into a blanket case for prohibition. Page 1 is proof of that.
 
Men and women will still practice it even if you make it illegal. Human biology triumphs over law and morality I'm afraid.
 
There is no way to realistically enforce a ban on it. But it should be publicly shamed more. And anyone considering it should be forced to read r/polyamory's horror stories.
 
It doesn't matter wether it's illegal or not, just don't practice polygamy at all. It always leads to broken relationships and kids that hate you.
Destiny knows a thing or two about it. Be a serious person and start a regular monogamous relationship, which is what jews and globohomo hates and doesn't want you to do.
 
Stick to your shitty, dysfunctional polycules and leave the legal implications (benefits) to actual, legit marriages.

If you want, you can pretend to be cuck husband of fat repulsive whore + druggie schizophrenic at your fake wedding in your garage, there's no problem with that.
 
TheArtilleryman said:
Someone once told me the real reasons Muslims are polygamous is so each family can easily produce 10+ children, rapidly outpopulate the other ethnicitys/religions they transplant in to and provide plenty of able bodies for jihad when the time comes.
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You have the cause and effect relation backwards. Muslims can pump out tons of children because they are polygamous, but they are not polygamous for this reason. The reason they are polygamous is because Mohammed wanted to "marry" aka enslave and rape lots of women and children, instead of just one.
 
XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG said:
The premise that the state gets to decide which intimate arrangements are legal or illegal in the first place is doing more work than any anti-polygamy argument in this thread.
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Besides "legal" and "illegal", there is also a third, secret, thing where the relationship has no particular legal status at all.

The State asserting people may have only one reciprocally designated legally recognized spouse does not necessarily preclude additional not-legally-recognized partners.

You and your spouse, and your additional partners, can live in whatever personal arrangement you all find agreeable, but nobody outside of your relationship can be compelled to recognize more than the one officially legally designated spouse.

This comes with a lot of potential pitfalls for you and your wife and your mistress and your wife's boyfriend, but you all choose to take on all those complications and risks. However nobody outside of your relationship(s) is required to deal with that bullshit.
 
Raven of the Burning God said:
Besides "legal" and "illegal", there is also a third, secret, thing where the relationship has no particular legal status at all.
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Yeah, and that's a fair distinction to point out.
I didn't get into that angle because the thread is explicitly framed around the question whether polygamy should be illegal, which is really a question about prohibition. The separate question of whether the state should expand its marriage recognition system beyond two people is a different issue. A government could choose to leave the marriage framework unchanged while simultaneously not criminalizing plural relationships.
 
XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG said:
the thread is explicitly framed around the question whether polygamy should be illegal, which is really a question about prohibition
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For the most part, it being a statutory offense seems to be applied to cases of fraud, e.g., where the subsequent legally invalid marriages are presented to the subsequent spouses as official monogamy, and they file a complaint about it when the jig is up.

If everyone knows the score going in, any marriages beyond the first/current one would still be legally invalid, but the State generally isn't going to take the initiative to investigate the arrangement unless there are other concerns (e.g., sex trafficking, child abuse, etc.).

But if everyone is getting along and not hurting anybody, men in policeman costumes aren't going to kick down your door because you have some not-legally-recognized backup spouses.

You leave yourself open to your legal spouse filing for at-fault divorce by reason of adultery, or if you accumulate too many wives under one roof it might meet the statutory definition of a brothel, or other odd edge cases that arise out of monogamy being the official default.
 
LongTallTexan said:
I honestly can't think of a good argument against it.
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You should really think harder then, but barring that you should look up ANY example of polyamory online. It's always associated with misery, pain, and overweight gender blobs.

Polyamory just doesn't work.

LongTallTexan said:
so there's not even a strong religious case against it.
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Abraham caused a generational blood feud because he let his wife convince him to impregnate her servant and his wife HATED her servant for it so much after the fact that she demanded Abraham cast her and her son out into the wilderness.

Jacob married Leah (by accident and deception on the part of Leah and her father) and then her sister Rachel (the one he actually wanted and was willing to work FOURTEEN YEARS to earn her father's permission) AND their two maids because the sisters were so jealous of each other they were constantly fighting over who was the better wife. The family conflict directly resulted in Joseph (coat of many colors fame) being nearly killed by his half brothers and sold into slavery.

Instead of getting to settle into building the temple, King David's reign was defined by conflict, rebellion, and retarded family drama including his daughter being raped by her half brother because he took multiple wives.

Which set the example for Solomon, the wisest man alive to that point, who lost the favor of God because he collected a harem of women who all worshiped foreign gods and led him astray.

The Old Testament is one example after another of God's chosen people thinking polyamory will totally work this time only for it to blow up in their faces.
 
Polygamy is 100% illegal in the US and it should remain that way forever, and if you disagree, you're a gay and retarded nigger.
 
It already is in about all 50 states in the Union. Polygamy has been illegal for a long time in the US. Should you be allowed to marry multiple people? Probably. I mean, I think it's kind of offensive and unconstitutional that you can't. But it wouldn't be a happy marriage. You just be a bunch of weirdos and Muslims.
 
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