Polygamy?, whats your opinion Options

[1234king]

I was watching t.v. today and every news channel that i flipped to had the piligamy issue on it. i was just wondering about your opinion on it. i think you should only marry one person.

"edit" sorry i some how f-ed up the poll again. i spaced between the lines.

"grabs chair and smashes computer"

This post has been edited by 1234king: May 12 2006, 05:16 AM

[DoomedOne]

No one respects a joke made at someone else's expense anymore...

Anyway, yes, the Qu'ran states in one single line at only one specific part that marriage with multiple women is okay if you're having a hard time bearing children with just one, and can support more than one, however, I bet you if the right researcher went at it, the Bible could be made out to say the same thing.

Generally, it's not religion that decides how many wives you can have. Religious laws are based off very practical things, I think it comes down to the environment and what's naturally best for the people as opposed to what their religion states (The Church of Latter Day Saints being a very bad example). Humans seem to me to be more like birds. Birds, I think all birds but I'm not positive, have one partner their entire life, and never switch off. This would be pretty far opposed to the octopus, where the females build shelters and the males act as vagabonds roaming shelter to shelter doing any female ripe for it. But, it's whatever works for the individual species, and humans have lived in many different tribes and lifestyles.

For those of you who have tried to generalize all hunter/gatherer humans into what their habits were, that's not true. Many individual groups or tribes followed those examples, but many followed other ones. The Inuit people had one wife their entire lives, and oftenly marriage was arranged but they never divorced. What's funny, is if a traveller happened to roam by then part of Inuit hospitality is if the traveller was exceedingly lonely the husband might offer his wife for the night.

Virtually every tribe was a ittle different in their practices. The amazons would kidnap men and rape them, then kill them after they got their seed, and kill all the male babies born in their tribe. In most tribes, both the man and the woman were equally valued, even if the man or woman was allowed multiple partners. There are exceptions, such as the Mesai, which practiced removing the woman's lamp post to ensure loyalty to her husband.

Here's my point, there no one way or another way humans should be, and there is no way that's more natual than another way, or more moral than another way. Multiple wives does not automatically mean a patriarchal society. Hence, I with-hold my stance, I don't care, I don't make it my business what people want to marry or how many they want to marry, and I don't think the government should legislate their viewpoints on the subject, any government.