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Quote by: Dirty Name Wonderful! Thanks for sharing. But NOBODY ASKED. That's the key. The government doesn't CARE. You are the exception to the rule. |
Having read your responses to my incomplete post, I see there is little point in arguing this with you. You have made up your own standards, and you are arguing from those. For you, marriage is nothing but the state's attempt to make life easier for couples who will have children; therefore, the only people who get to have "marriages" are the people who will have children. QED. This is why you keep demanding my definition of marriage, and ignoring everything I posit as a partial definition; yours starts, and stops, with procreation. Marriage to you is the environment that makes it most likely that egg will meet sperm, and a child will survive to 18 years old.
Your definition of marriage is not mine. I think your definition is sad, and so I will stick with mine. I chose not to have children, as did my wife, before we even met, because we do not want to give our lives up for our kids. We admire people who do, but we are too selfish to do this.
You are welcome to it, if that is all marriage is. Keep the tax breaks, keep the social security death benefits. I'll stick with my loving relationship with my wife -- and you probably got irritated with me for saying that, didn't you? Because you didn't ask, and you don't care? That's why this is sad.
And since your definition of marriage is not the one the governemnt recognizes, there's no point in continuing this argument with you. The government recognizes my marriage, so whether you do or not is irrelevant to me.