Marriage

6/19/2008.

Marriage is a way to "justify" a particular event or act.

There's actually a reason why men get married. Men get married so they can do their worst, freaky shit, without getting fear of getting laughed at or arrested. Marriage is a way to "justify" their act.

Okay, so I know that having sex with a 16 year-old girl is culturally and legally wrong. But I know if I marry her, then, it becomes less culturally and legally wrong. It becomes more socially acceptable, as viewed by society (I hope).

If not for that, then why marriage?

In this case, marriage is a man's best defense for doing his freaky shit that would get him arrested or portrayed wrongly by society. If having sex with a girl is morally wrong, and marriage with that girl is possible, then marriage is a way to "justify" that immorality by no longer making it immoral.

Marriage is also a defense against the religious society. It defends against the entire "pre-marital" issue that religious people care about. "The bed shall not be undefiled, and the Lord spoke."

I know marriage isn't a packaged deal, but it should be.

Marriage in the past was a way to protect and show paternity. In ages past, rank passed down through the female line and not the male - marriage changed that. It was a way of merging fortunes, creating political or geographical ties, etc. Divorce was very easy in the Roman times and earlier than that marriage was really something only the royalty did.

The whole concept of marriage as it is today is a pretty recent concept. Today, there's not much point to it unless you get married because of some religious belief or other necessity.

As to our declining morals…, which is more special, 2 people that are forced to stay together because of virtual manacles that have been placed on them, or 2 people that choose to stay together because they wish to? It's not marriage; it's what you feel about each other that counts.

And what about common law marriage or palimony? You get the same legal protections now if you live with each other as you would have if you were married. In fact, in some cases you end up with more protection.

And marriage also has a thing for idiots. Idiots that want to "prove" to each other that they love each other, will get married so they can "prove" to each other that they love each other. A piece of paper is what it takes. In that case, marriage is useful for idiots.