The fact is that polygamy can only be the culture of a parasite people feeding on a larger, sick host. Statistically, there can only be one woman per man in a stable society - otherwise, an enormous number of young men will go wifeless. Without a more populous surrounding monogamous culture willing to surrender women to them without a fight, the inevitable result is external warfare, or internal massacres of unmatched men or exiling of unmatched men.
You are so right.
Polygamy seeks to codify into law what amounts to a “math problem.” And it never works out.
And yes, societies that end up with too many single, unmarried men, end up in warfare.
History is our friend.
Indulge me for a moment... I admit that I am prejudiced, as my only child is a boy, a cherished son.
To drive along stretches of the I-15 here, plus the many state interstates, and see the 12/13/14 year old boys, walking along the freeway..is too much. They are in their plaid flannel shirts (regardless of the weather, and it gets HOT here by April), usually with a small backpack on them.
They have been kicked out of their own families. Can you imagine?
All so that their father, or their father’s friend can “marry” the same aged gal who SHOULD have been that boy’s junior prom date.
It makes me want to throw up, honestly.
There’s always the 72 virgins, isn’t there?