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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
speaking of which, i occasionally wonder how much of the energy behind polyamory is due to romantic relationships being, in the US at least, the only normalized way to justify planning your life with someone you're not related to
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
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Replying to @choosy_mom and @liminal_warmth
"hey guys you should definitely spend 4 years bonding deeply with each other and then scatter to the winds planning your lives separately unless you happen to also be having sex with each other"
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void angel
@egregirls
on a serious note the thing with marriage is that it is a legal structure: you can replicate the binding with contracts and shared funds or an LLC if you want the rest is human trust I find that binding people isn't in my interest; keeping a community open churns people
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lisatomic
@lisatomic5
I have historically agreed with you, but my views became a little more complicated I guess (after ending a marriage-like relationship that would have been harder to end if we had actually married). Marriage is sort of a commitment device/"butt promise"...
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@himbodhisattva
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Replying to @lisatomic5
tbh the name economists gave it is never going to catch on, I'm backing "butt promise" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commitmen
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