Re: Forced Into Marriage at 14, She Testified Against Warren Jeffs

The Poster Formerly Known as Craig Olson wrote:
> John Manning wrote:
> 
>> The Poster Formerly Known as Craig Olson wrote:
>>
>>> Just Wondering wrote:
>>>
>>>> "john p" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Reasonable people see the problem with polygamy.   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please explain "the problem with polygamy."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think there is any theoretical problem with polygamy. In a 
>>> true polygamous society, it would be acceptable for a man to have 
>>> more than one wife or for a wife to have more than one husband. 
>>> Unless it was a coercive society, no one would be forced to have even 
>>> one spouse, let alone more than one. In practice, everything should 
>>> even out.
>>>
>>> In polygynous societies, on the other hand, there is a rather obvious 
>>> problem. Since the birth rates for males and females tend to be close 
>>> to even, a society that allows some men to have more than one wife 
>>> limits the chances that all men will be able to find even one wife.
>>>
>>> Conversely, it might actually be an advantage for the women in the 
>>> society, if we assuming that the choice to marry is free on both 
>>> sides. If you were to rank all potential husbands in terms of 
>>> desirability as a spouse (using whatever scale you would like), then 
>>> in monogamous societies, once the top choices are married, a single 
>>> woman has to settle for someone further down the list. In free and 
>>> open polygyny, a single woman has a chance to become a wife of 
>>> someone closer to the top of the list, if she choses.
>>>
>>> It would leave the male losers out of the running, sadly enough, but 
>>> would offer a better selection for the women. Not that we have any 
>>> examples of male losers around here.
>>>
>>> I recognize that the lack of this freedom to choose would make 
>>> polygyny something much closer to servitude that selection, but that 
>>> wasn't my point.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
>> Ask 'Just Wondering' aka F Mark Hansen, a lawyer for and a leader of 
>> the Kingston polygamist Order in Utah, if he doesn't see a problem 
>> with the ***** and welfare fraud which Kingston polygamists have been 
>> charged and convicted of.
> 
> 
> And just what does any form of *****uous polygamous sect have to do 
> with the comments to which you are replying?
> 
> Or are you not concerned that your comments be germane to the
discussion?


I was responding to 'Just Wondering' [F Mark Hansen's] request:
"Please explain 'the problem with polygamy.'"