On 4/15/2014 1:59 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Poligamy is common when big disparity of wealt, in low density coutries in
harsh
conditions or in societies where violence is increasing Do you thing that
these
conditions are in the aspirations of the civilized society?. The fact that
we are
towards it.
I think that the aspiration of civilisation should be to allow humans to dream and
transcend their current condition. I imagine a more advances civilisation being much
less concerned with sexual norms.
Polygamy, freely chosen, is probably a better system than serial monogamy - which is what
tends to be practiced by wealthy men in the west. Robert Wright makes the case polygamy
was banned in the west as a populist measure to ensure that almost all men could find a
wife; which makes for a more stable society. But it actually restricts women's choices
and goes against biological evolution. He quotes Gloria Steinem as having said, "I'd
rather be Robert Kennedy Jr's second wife than Pee Wee Herman's first." Of course
polygamy as actually practiced in cults and Afghanistan tends to be forced on very young
girls, and not freely chosen.
Brent
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