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Forget all the long-winded responses. The best justification for State-assisted suicide is that you did not choose to be born, and therefore you shoul...

And by the way, I don't see a problem with that at all. If three adult men, mutually consenting, and of sound mind, want to get married, that doesn't ...

I suspect TimeLine has backed out of the debate. The answer is that the right for three or more consenting adults of sound mind to enter into a marria...

I am not surprised you have posted that because you have run out of substance.

Great. So if you agree with polygamous marriage, you agree with what I have said.

Legalising polygamous marriage is similar to legalising gay marriage because it promotes freedom (three or more mutually consenting adults of sound mi...

As I have said earlier, the arguments on freedom and equality that can be used to justify gay marriage can also be invoked in the case of polygamous m...

First, your standard is arbitrary and bizarre. Second, this thread is not about whether polygamous marriage is a "viable political issue". Wrong. I ar...

Whether or not it is a "real issue" to you is subjective. It is an issue that is raised in this thread. I am not making any claims about how widesprea...

Legalising both would promote freedom, so in that regard it would be the same. Why would you deny three mutually consenting adults from entering into ...

I think the best case is freedom. You should have the freedom to commit suicide if you want to. The reason why a proposal for State-assisted suicide i...

Just because she wants to live doesn't meant others do too.

The beauty of democracy is that there is free speech, something you obviously don't like. If you think about it, gay marriage used to be an idea that ...

Then your argument is null.

You have misinterpreted what I am saying. I am saying that if people support gay marriage on the ground that it promotes freedom, they should also sup...

So your only substantive criticism of this thread is its title, is that correct? If not, could you please list out your other substantive criticisms?

Saying that "someone who banged on forever about something that most folk are not interested in would be a dick" is not a substantive criticism either...

I have said a lot. One thing I have said is that perhaps polygamous marriage should be legalised. You have said that I am a "dick", that there are mor...

I agree that this was a cause. Thank you for the advice. I agree. I am talking about marriage. I think it was a lot of things, including freedom and f...

I don't think that brushing the issue off as unimportant is a good rebuttal, either. Of course there are more important issues, but does that mean tha...

The individual himself never chooses to be born. He is simply born, and he has no say over what his upbringing is, what his environment is and what to...

Could you please assume it is a serious proposal. I can assure you in all sincerity that I am serious about the proposal, or at least wish to test its...

You haven't. How many of those 3 points do you agree with (if any)?

If you agree with those 3 points, you agree with what I have been trying to convey to TimeLine.

I don't think that calling someone a "dick" is a good rebuttal. Of course it is. But that doesn't mean that all laws which are passed democratically s...

Go back and answer them, then.

Those are very basic propositions I have put forward. They can be answered with a "Yes" or a "No", with an explanation afterwards.

I agree. So once TimeLine agrees, we can move on. I note that you have also agreed to my earlier reply. Having agreed to those points, do you agree wi...

I agree.

You have shifted the topic. Address my replies. "Are you just saying that the majority can be wrong" Yes. Do you disagree? Yes or no. "...the majority...

So do you agree with those 5 points? A yes or no answer is sufficient. The problem is that if you start making extra points, the scope of the debate b...

You need to be concise. Everything here has nothing to do with my two replies. Instead of writing about a million different topics, focus on this one:...

Wrong. I am not arguing that polygamy is wrong because 2+2 does not equal 5. I am saying that just because an idea is endorsed by the majority does no...

I said that the majority can be wrong. The majority is not always right. This is a straightforward point any reasonable person agrees with. One hypoth...

Perhaps you have been told this before, but your writing is extremely verbose, strange and irrelevant. I have said nothing of the merits of democracy ...

The fact that a majority of people is wrong has utterly nothing to do with voting, law or politics in my example.

That's what I've been doing to each of your comments. You have not done the same. Those are general broad-brush topics you should bring elsewhere. The...

it is an example of when the majority is incorrect. And that point applies to the case of policy, too. One example is slavery. The fact that people on...

I am not talking about democracy, tyranny, the proportional representation system or equality. The point I made is that just because a majority of peo...

I said it was a logical view to have. I never said you could prove it.

What you have said above has zero relevance to my reply. "This is a political question, so you were somewhat factitious by beginning the discussion on...

Of course, I agree that we should behave in socially acceptable ways. If I have friends who are religious and I am at the dinnertable with them, I wou...

For a lot of people, this is really unsatisfying, but we shouldn't be bothered about whether the truth is comforting or not. I think the truth is the ...

I think it is also the most logical view. It would be totally arbitrary to say that there is an afterlife, and that you become an elephant or a tiger ...

The justification for legalising same-sex marriage (freedom) can be used to support polygamy as well. Neither forms of marriage are inherently destruc...

No. The point is that that just because the majority thinks something is correct (that gay marriage should be allowed, but polygamy not) does not mean...

This is obvious. But it is not sufficient in the sense that it does not provide a cogent and logical justification. If there are 10 people in a room, ...

That is exactly the point. If we prohibit polygamy but allow gay marriage, there needs to be a cogent justification for it. The fact that more people ...

So if three women want to get married to each other in a three-way relationship, it is right to deny them that freedom even though they don't affect a...

In Australia, you cannot be married to two Australian residents at once. In that sense, polygamy is not legal. You say that " large portion of Austral...