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Love and marriage : Comments
By Michael Thompson, published 14/12/2015Is it logical that governments should facilitate marriage and help people to move on from a loving relationship to a married one?
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I think the point is, you don't need to define a marriage.
Historically the church and the state did it for their own reasons. The church did it because of its visceral horror of sexual relations in general, which they tried to restrict and restrain as much as possible: the conventional definition of marriage being the result.
And the state did it because people often make their property and equitable arrangements on the basis of marriage.
Seeing what a dog's breakfast the whole area has become - with the government doing its utmost to destroy and undermine it - I think we need to be doing the thought experiment of asking, what would happen if we ended governmental involvement.
Conceptually, there is no reason why the law of contract should not apply instead of any marriage law.