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Okay, here's what you do for this game: You have to "ban" the person who posted above you for an outrageous, silly, or funny reason. Got it?
banned for somehow that sentence just got increasingly awkward as it went along... and not for grammatical reasons.
Banned because I believe strict monogamy is crazy talk, but if you promise it you deserve heap big punishment for breaking that promise.
OK, it's more complicated than that. I'm not sure if my sister and her man have promised monogamy to each other, but Campbell is legally married, which usually means infidelity is a crime (or breach of contract) of some sort if the 'betrayed' spouse wants to press the matter in court.
Banned again because the real matter is the awesomeness of Bruce Campbell. Chuck Norris isn't fit to fetch Bruce's water bottle between takes.
Banned for being so very very right.
-Twilight Storm
Swicord banned for posting before me.
Banned for doubling over.
Soooo.... marriage not a bool? Is it an int?? Or an array of some kind?????
Banned because marriage is most definitely not a mathematical thing.
It's not even all that sharp in legal terms, what with jurisdictional variations and old traditions like common law marriage. I was tickled to see big Wall Street money help push same-sex marriage through the NY legislature, but I'd prefer to see government entirely eliminated from the discussion. But then I read too much Heinlein when I was around your age...
banned for some think marriage as a whole is a weird idea. I have to admit that as I get older and I go in and out of relationships, I really can't say I've met anyone I wouldn't want to put out of my misery with a pillow while they sleep.
banned for I'm sure we've all been there to one degree or another.
banned for making marriage work requires effort
no one is perfect for one another
Banned because I never really got the point of marriage. Ok, so if you're attracted to someone enough to seriously want to spend the rest of your life with them (which I imagine is much more freakishly rare than American society makes it out to be), then do it. But why we need the whole rest of society to put some kind of special legal seal on it? Shouldn't the relationship itself be enough? And if it isn't enough, then why are you doing it in the first place?
Banned for not explaining to Scout that marriage was a concept put forth in the early days of man for women to make sure they and their children were taken care of in a society run by men where women were seen as lessers and had no rights, not even the right to have an income. They achieved this by making the point: "No band on the hand, no nookie for cookie." perfectly clear. This concept worked well up until about the end of the second world war where women's rights had given them fair protections in society, and Rosie the Riveter and Wendy the Welder proved that they could do the same work and it became an acceptable practice to hire women instead of men. They now have all of the same rights as men in most societies, earn income, own property, and direct society itself.
So to us, marriage is kind of a silly formality of life rather then the necessity it once was.
banned for it's true that marriage as a social pressure is unnecessary. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell prove that it can work without the contract. As for everyone else putting that pressure on you (When are you two getting married? *squeal*), it does tend to push things in places they probably don't need to go, especially since it's too easy to get married and too hard to get divorced. It should be the other way around.
From the government angle, I get the idea of marriage as a contract concerning inheritance and taxes.
All I'll say is the actual act of having a wedding is utterly pointless. All you need is agreement between two people that you will stay together. Marriage is a trap designed to force two people to try to work things out when times get rough and they need to back off from eachother. It just causes unecesary stress that leads to eventual divorce in most cases where this is relevant. (A lot of marriages work, and I'm not against two people being boned for life, I'm against all the other people who want to stick their noses in something that involves a man and a woman, two men, or two women.)
On a side not, I'm not against bigamy either, so long as all those involved know about eachother, and agree.
-Twilight Storm | Has nothing further to say on the subject, as for some reason, this topic really pisses me off, and I wish to avoid the unpleasantness of flaming/trolling in this otherwise enjoyable game.
Banned for not banning, and for unfairly labeling the practice as pointless.
banned for that's awesome, even if unintentional.
Banned for not seeing that there is no need for marriage if the people involved genuinely want to be together.
Also banned for goading me into speaking further on the subject...I am not amused...
-Twilight Storm | -.-
wow...I never used to make grammar errors like that...I must be slipping...
*Checks post for errors*
I meant Bonded.
Or...did I.....
-Twilight Storm | Self ban for hilariously placed gramar error.
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