Hamster Buddha
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I'm not claiming that SSM would invariably lead to polygamy. I'm just questioning why polygamy should be illegal.
Claiming that legal SSM will invariably lead to legal polygamy is like claiming legal marijuana will invariably lead to legal PCP.
It's not the same. First off, let's address the question you asked, "Why shouldn't Polygamy be legal". The answer is that it really should. It's just a legal agreement between consenting adults, and that's all that SSM has really been about (sans the whole cake thing which was preposterous). Ultimately, homosexuals want to be treated the same as heterosexuals, in terms of legalities at least, yes? There's nothing in that argument that can't then be applied to Polygamy or a host of others.
And what makes this different from the drug argument is that the same arguments for one, cannot be applied at this time to the other. I mean, at this moment we're just getting a feel of what legalizing marijuana will do. We don't know have a hard grasp of the consequences for what that brings. If this whole experiment blows up in our faces and turns out to be a bad idea, than nothing else ever gets legalized. I don't see how we could ever look back at SSM being legal and say that was a bad idea, see what I'm saying?