I think the paradox is an illusory one and stems from viewing marriage primarily as an egalitarian redistribution of sex rather than a distribution of sovereignty.
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Enforced monogamy delegates sovereignty across married men, a society with declining marriage rates and a large number of women and children directly dependent on the state breaks that system of delegation
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So it's not paradoxical at all that people who oppose one system support the other.
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