FWIW, I am actively poly myself, so I certainly wouldn't argue that :-)
But to me, what matters is that people get to make their own choices, according to a 'consenting adults' principle. FLDS-type polygamist groups offer less choice than vanilla monogamous society; the fact that the relationship they happen to enforce has some superficial similarities to the one I and my partners chose doesn't make them My Brothers In Oppression.
If anything, more like Those Arseholes Who Spoil It For The Rest Of Us.
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Date: 2011-11-24 07:34 am (UTC)But to me, what matters is that people get to make their own choices, according to a 'consenting adults' principle. FLDS-type polygamist groups offer less choice than vanilla monogamous society; the fact that the relationship they happen to enforce has some superficial similarities to the one I and my partners chose doesn't make them My Brothers In Oppression.
If anything, more like Those Arseholes Who Spoil It For The Rest Of Us.