Paul,

What's your point ? So you don't think people should be able to make choices, in the context of all of the opportunities and constraints facing them ?

Black should marry black, white should marry white - is that it ? Interesting - in South Africa, former President de Klerk has just been rightly chastised for defending Apartheid. i.e. a closed and segregated society.

But democratic societies are (or should be) open, inclusive societies - people can marry or mix with who they like. And yes, it means that future generations will have multiple ancestries, with (along the lines of Darwin's principle of 'hybrid vigour') increasingly beautiful children. I'm 100 % for it. Where do you stand ?

Joe

people can marry or mix with who they like.
Loudmouth2,
I extend this right to pulling one's weight in society !

Individual,

Everybody should have the right to marry whoever they like, provided they are over-age and unmarried.

And everybody should pull their weight.

The two notions are not necessarily connected, nor should they be.

Joe

The two notions are not necessarily connected,
Loudmouth2,
I beg to differ because they do make a difference when it comes to benefits & entitlements.

Individual,

How's that ? Are you suggesting that marriage can only be permitted between people who have been certified as 'pulling their weight' ?

That some people - if they express an interest in mixing ewth or marrying someone from a different group - should be subjected to a sort of sort of Good Behaviour Scale ?

That the Good-Behaviour and Pulling-Your-Weight Police should have rights to pull people over to check their GB/PYW record ?

Can you please join the dots between the two different issues ? Does it apply to people who do 'the right thing' from a racist point of view and stick 'to their own' or are they exempt ?

Or are you suggesting that, in a general sense, no matter who people mix with, or whatever they do, that they all pull their weight ? That if anybody wants some sort of benefit from any public funding, then they should be adhering to reasonable behavioural criteria ?

Joe

Loudmouth2,
I think you know full well what I'm on about but you choose to act ignorant. Benefits are not the reason people get together however, benefits are a major factor if one partner is Australian indigenous male !
By saying "pulling their own weight" I'm not targeting mixed race marriage, I'm on about anyone & bureaucrats in particular who allow many not to pull their weight !