Reply #83: It's none of my business [View All]

[orthogonal]

I haven't been defending polygamy in the thread you referenced, but in general, I don't think it's my business to tell others whom to love or whom to marry.

Gay, straight, Christian, Mormon, Hindu, atheist -- whatever, how you choose to run your life isn't for me to judge, until and unless someone is constructively harmed by it.

Look, I just don't care: if two guys want to get married, if three girls want to marry one guy, if a guy and his dog and his cousin want to get married -- it's just none of my business. Let them do what makes them happy. I don't have a direct line to the Almighty -- indeed, I don't even believe in the Almighty -- and I'm not about to arrogate to myself the right to tell anyone else how to live their lives in the privacy of their own homes.

If underage girls are being forced into marriage, it's the being forced that's objectionable, not the number of wives in the marriage; conversely, if everyone in some multiple-spouse marriage is a consenting adult, my opinion on the matter should have no legal standing.