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[RobinStarwing]

Originally Posted by Professor Smarmiarty

I didn't read any posts by anybody else because if I read too many of one persons posts we become legally married.


There are two basic arguments
1) The patriarchy argument is the first and is pretty good. This applies in general as well, even if we didn't live in patriacharl society- you are contracting out your relationship, making it difficult legally and socially to end it, partners are being coerced to stay together which is never a good sign. If they love each other they shouldn't need some form of legal coercion to stay together.
but I prefer
2) That marriage is inherentely evil because it encourages the formation of family groups- of competing units, of people who care more for protecting their family than for the good of the people as a whole. The best way to kill off revolutionaries is to get them married off and preferably to have kids- as soon as that happens their number 1 goal from then on is protecting and providing for their family and their spouse, thus preventing them from taking up risky actions, for pushing for change which will carry with it periods of uncertainity, from doing anything other than trying to make the maximum money possible.
The family unit is a deeply deeply conservative idea and it is promoted as such to enforce social control and to slow change. This is why the church are so all over controlling marriage- this began in the 12th century right as the church started instituting its most major structural reforms to get in with the rising economics and powers of Europe, they hadn't given a shit before, and they have kept it up ever since.
TLDR: Marriage is exploitative. Marriage is normative. Marriage is depowering. And it doesn't have any good points- there is no need for it.

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