Polygamy,feelings?

Freiheit

A story in todays Sunday Times that an Irish citizen of Lebanese origin is seeking to have his ploygamous Islamic marriage (two wives)recognised in Irish law. How do others feel?. If it's granted on the basis that it's recognised in the country where the ceremony took place then surely same-sex marriage, legal in some countries, should be recognised too?. I'm really not sure, my heart say's it's wrong, my head isn't sure.

SLUSK

As a libertarian I am not opposed to any sort of voluntary marriage agreements.

Some argue though it would cause great social unrest if you allowed polygamy since a large proportion of all men would never have a chance to get a woman and be sexually active.

Freiheit

I feel similar, if an arrangement is purely voluntary I would not oppose it, but to ensure such is impossible....

Could anyone provide me with a good link for liberterianism? doesn't appear to be a wikipedia entry.

Eliot Rosewater

Theres a Wikipedia page on Libertarianism.

The problem with the term (and the Wiki article) is that its taken by two groups of people who effectively have opposing views.

On Boards.ie libertarianism effectively means an "extreme" form of liberalism. Libertarians here advocate that the state should be minimized, that its assets be sold to private individuals and companies, that people should assume their own personal responsibility and thus not rely on the welfare state, and that the state should not limit personal activities, such as polygamy, where those activities do not have an impact upon non-consenting adults.

Libertarianism in the Boards.ie sense is better known as Anarcho-capatalism.


There is also a group (in the real world) of extreme communists, or anarchists, who also use the term libertarianism to describe their views. They seek to have the state (or the "community" as they call it) control all economic matters and thus forbid private property. I dont really see how that amounts to increasing personal liberty, so I would not use the term libertarian to describe them.

The Corinthian

Freiheit wrote: »

A story in todays Sunday Times that an Irish citizen of Lebanese origin is seeking to have his ploygamous Islamic marriage (two wives)recognised in Irish law. How do others feel?.

I feel that this topic has actually been brought up several times here recently, so I don't know why a new thread was required.

If it's granted on the basis that it's recognised in the country where the ceremony took place then surely same-sex marriage, legal in some countries, should be recognised too?.

Recognition of polygamous marriages that have taken place abroad is a very different thing to accepting polygamous marriage in general.

Things such as marriage, divorce, child custody, maintenance, etc are generally recognised internationally on the basis that we respect the ruling of the country of origin (although it may be appealed in cases such as child custody or maintenance).

Imagine that someone gets married, divorced, remarried and then moves to a country that does not recognise divorce. Should the second marriage be recognised? Or a gay couple marry where it is legally recognised - should it be recognised where it is not?

It's one for the thorny things about bilateral laws; we can choose to not recognise things that emotively we react against, but if we do, then we really are not in a position to complain if we end up in another country and someone else does the same to us.

That's one of the many reasons why it is better to think with our heads and ignore the heart.

Permabear

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