Posted on 03/11/2009 12:03:59 PM PDT by TruthHound
So, Mr. Ad hominum, a marriage is NOT a contract?
Wow.
My 'Too Stupid To Talk To' meter hasn't pinged this hard in a long while.
Best of luck. You're going to need it.
But you can’t help yourself, can you? As you learned in your law course, every contract implicitly contains limits imposed by the state, which bind not only the parties but the person drafting the contract, whether you are buying a pencil or a bride. What amazing me is how people can ever think themselves autonomous even in the most private moments, given the huge body of legal constraints on our actions.
And there are hordes of simpletons like, well...you, urging that very same State on to lay yet even more 'legal' constraints on what should be private, voluntary actions between consenting adults.
Your premise is wrong. You can't even conceive of a world without your actions being layed out for you by the State.
You're pitiful.
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Those restraints include those which have been part of the legal fabric since the Middle Ages, because they reflect the real makeup of society. I simply don’t-and the law doesn’t either—think that all legal relations can be reduced to contractal ones. The state has an interest in marriage because it has an interest in families and the laws are constructed with families in mind. Every individual is a member of a family, a fact attested by the fact that each person has a family name.
You're right. Neither one of you thinks.
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Both the law simply IS. Deal with it.
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