Reply #52: I got no beef with you! [View All]

[iverglas]

as my post giving kudos for someone who practises informal polygamy, for not demanding formal recognition of the practice, indicates.

I just take exception to the knee-jerk, finger-pointing, wallet-clutching silliness of some people's responses to some things.

As with all "rights," I believe there is a limit imposed when the rights of one person infringe on the rights of another.

I support interferences with exercises of rights that oppress and exploit people who are vulnerable to the point that they are unable to exercise their own rights. Oppression and exploitation are the problems that liberalism, in the usual sense of the word historically and outside the present-day US, fails to address. Where power is not equal, oppression and exploitation will occur.

Some women may be capable of consenting to polygyny, just as some adolescents may be capable of consenting to sexual contact with adults and various other things -- but so many are not, that it is justifiable to interfere relatively trivially in the rights of those who are to protect those who aren't from harm that is more than trivial.

Here's one for you that I ran across while searching for polygamy / child tax exemptions:
http://www.christianpolygamy.com/
They're recruiting ...


http://www.christianpolygamy.com/futurewives.htm

(dang, you have to go to the site for the full effect -- when you hover your mouse over the little lady, she bows down)