Re:The Case Against Marriage – What You Lose When You Gain a...
by jdm2212 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @10:25AM
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The article has a few interesting points about community ties, but it's generally long on word games and short on substance.
The article equivocates between marriage as legal privileges, marriage as lifelong monogamous commitment, marriage as cultural ideal, and marriage as signaling mechanism about relationship seriousness.
Yes, this is par for the course for the "Case Against X" template -- shift seamlessly between different meanings of the word X, because the whole point is it's a polemic and not a careful argument. But it's still frustrating and sloppy thinking.
The article equivocates between marriage as legal privileges, marriage as lifelong monogamous commitment, marriage as cultural ideal, and marriage as signaling mechanism about relationship seriousness.
Yes, this is par for the course for the "Case Against X" template -- shift seamlessly between different meanings of the word X, because the whole point is it's a polemic and not a careful argument. But it's still frustrating and sloppy thinking.