Re: Why do people still get married?

On May 12, 7:43=A0am, Neal Eckhardt <neckha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 9 May 2008 20:43:14 -0700 (PDT), Curse OfMillhaven
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> >On May 9, 8:28=A0am, "John Dean" <john-d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Curse OfMillhavenwrote:
> >> > Seems to me marriage went obsolete sometime in the last century.
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> >> People still like to make public affirmation of their feelings for
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> >> other and marriage is universally understood to do that [1].
> >> Plus it is a very convenient shorthand for saying "Gimme all those
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> >> rights and benefits without having to apply for them one at a time."
> >> Plus it's the best way yet invented to say "We will have equal rights
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> >> how our children are brought up and an equal duty to sup****t them
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> >> of us screws up."
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> >> In short, there are other ways of getting almost everything that
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> >> Marriage ticks the boxes in a =A05 minute ceremony.
> >> Oh, and if you plan it right, you get a ton of presents and you can
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> >> trade of four or five of the toasters for a computer.
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> >> [1] Nothing in this posting should be construed as offering an
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> >> Anna Nicole Smith
> >> [2] Try getting a widow's pension when you're not married and hear
> >> bureaucratic laughter in your ears
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> >> John Dean
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> >Your post makes the most sense so far.
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> >I wrote up a will and made my sister the executor.
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> Who is she going to have to kill?
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