Posted by JohnX on
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Wikipedia defines it as follows: Marriage (or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship.

That's a good enough starting point, but I'd say that it's a social union and a legal contract, and that it properly is lifelong (including by law), as it used to be.

I haven't decided what I think of same sex marriages, but should I decide against it I guess I'd exchange "people" with "a man and a woman".

I believe it's an important institution to maintain stability (among other things), but it more or less requires the right society with the right laws and the right ideas accepted by a majority of people.

Getting married today (in the West) doesn't make that much sense unless one has some special circumstances working in ones favor to keep things in order (preventing the wife from leaving, for example). That could be a strong sub-culture like the Hasidic Jews have that I know your a big admirer of.

As a bonus not getting married also strikes back at feminism.

I haven't really worked out all the details on this, but those are some of my current thoughts on the topic. Tell me what you think.