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(Score: 2) by snick on Friday April 04 2014, @12:47AM
Child marriage is forbidden for the same reason that we don't allow children to sign contracts. (or if they do sign them, they are unenforceable)
Children are unable to give informed consent, and so are unable to enter into marriage or other legally binding contracts.
Equating this with the situation of adults (who are able to give consent) shows that you aren't thinking your analogy through.
Where some cultures disagree (and it is reasonable to disagree) is exactly when children reach the age of consent.
Cultures, on the other hand, who treat people (usually women or children) as property to be bartered or sold are objectively inferior. Fuck them.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Friday April 04 2014, @01:08AM
So if contract legalities are the only restriction, then (adult) incestuous marriages, polygamy, and more are perfectly okay?
If you oppose them, you're a bigot.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.
(Score: 2) by snick on Friday April 04 2014, @01:54PM
Incest, when it results in children, has a detrimental health effect on the population as a whole. It is reasonable for a society to establish limits for this reason.
Plural marriage is inoffensive in of itself, but its practice (at least in the US) has often been closely associated with child marriage and coerced marriage. Assuming that these problematic practices can be controlled independently, then yeah. Objection to plural marriage is mere prejudice and the desire to control how others live.
(Score: 2) by evilviper on Friday April 04 2014, @02:42PM
Not until every other thing people can do, that has detrimental health effects, is outlawed. And I see zero way in which getting a marriage license will affect those potential children.
Besides, this same argument goes against gay marriage just as well... People engaging in sodomy has a detrimental effect on the population as a whole, yet those laws were thrown out...
No. Marriage licenses have no effect on those issues, and vice versa. Whether they "can be controlled" or not doesn't have any bearing.
Hydrogen cyanide is a delicious and necessary part of the human diet.