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- From: alex@mentor.cc.purdue.edu ( )
- Subject: Re: Getting Married: Grounds for Insanity Plea?
- Message-ID: <BxsB6r.G6z@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Keywords: Off Your Rocker
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <stone.721680394@cwis>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:08:49 GMT
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- In article <stone.721680394@cwis> stone@cwis.unomaha.edu (Travis Stone) writes:
- >
- >
- >Can anyone give me (a minimum) of three good, logical reasons
- >why people should marry? It strikes me as a silly and unnecessary
- >cultural institution wherein two people legally bind themselves
- >together with a notarized, signed document, only to find out some
- >time down the road that they really aren't all that crazy about
- >one another. Oh, I freely admit that there are a few freak cases
- >floating around out there---statistical aberrations in which two
- >people join together for life, and are truly happy with each other---
- >but if the divorce rates aren't all fiction, it would seem that, in
- >a majority of cases, you and your significant other would be much
- >better off not "tying the knot" because, in case of incompatibility,
- >you won't have to go through a ton of emotionally-charged legal
- >frabbajab to disentangle yourselves.
-
- I'm hoping that this is nothing more than a very cynical joke.
- If it is, it's a very sick one. But you wanted three good reasons,
- so here they are.
-
- 1) It gives one a good excuse to live in the same house as your SO.
-
- 2) Marriage shows that you love your SO enough that you are willing
- to commit your entire life to them, making the bond between you
- that much stronger.
-
- 3) It gives one a personal captive audience for any and all cynicism
- which one chooses to spew from that time forward.
-
- [Many extremely pessimistic observations deleted]
-
- The Idea behind marraige is that two people are willing to work
- together, in order to share their lives together with some sort
- of greater emotional attachment. If you are unwilling to work
- at problems, don't get married. For those of us whose relationships
- are based on trust and understanding, there is nothing wrong with it.
-
- >
- >Now, think about it---wouldn't you have been much better off NOT
- >having gotten married? If the relationship goes sour, either one or
- >the other of you can just get up and boogie on out the door, sans
- >lawyers, sans legal fees, sans messy and embarrassing court appear-
- >ances which, let's face it, you need like a hen needs a flag.
- >
- >So, seriously, folks: Why the hell buckle yourself into a social
- >straitjacket you'll (statistically) probably want out of a few
- >years down the road?
- >
- >T.R. Stone
-
- Simply because most people on this newsgroup have no wish to be, or
- intention of ever becoming, a statistic. Statistics are for those who
- feel the need to needlessly catagorize everthing. Most normal
- people ignore them and do whatever is going to make them happiest, and
- couldn't care less about some figure an irate, cynical mathematician
- has come up with somewhere. Face it, nothing's ever set in stone.
- We choose what happens in our lives, and if you choose not to
- make your own choices, then you will indeed wind up as a "statistic".
- Live your life, and you'll be too busy having fun to worry about
- some pathetic number.
-
- -Alex
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