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OT: Rebelious reopening of locked topic 24-Aug-2010 At 5:54:59 PM oweng

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The only arguement that I have heard that makes any vague sense to me is the 'slippery slope' argument.

For example, I dont care in the slightest what consenting adults do, as long as nobody gets hurt. So gay marriage to me seems fine.

But if I apply the same criteria, I cant see any problem with plural marriages between multiple consenting adults (I know that there are issues with abuse of power and plural marriages but there are plenty of shitty 'normal' marriages too).

Then going to the extreame, whats the big issue with a brother and sister getting married? Or a mother and son? Obviously there may be concerns with the health of children, but im sure there are cases where brothers and sisters have fallen in love any wanted to get married.

Thats the only arguement I have heard against gay marriage that I could see the logic of. Even then I dont really buy it. 10% of the population (gay) is a big chunk. Seems unfair to discriminate given that I doubt more than 1% would be interested in plural marriage, and 0.01% interested in incestuous marriage.