[SOC] Bigamy, anyone?

[JMcAulay]

Tim, thanks for that view from your perspective.

At 06:11 PM 10/26/2003 -0600, Tim (N7VU) wrote, among other things:

>I don't have any real problem with bigamy as described by Chris (or with
>homosexual couples and other oddities) as long as everything is in the open
>and there is no victim. However, polygamy rarely works that way. 

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>...I'm pretty skeptical
>when it comes to polygamy. It generally creates a lot of victims, some of
>whom are prevented from ever realizing what victims they are.

No argument with that, Tim, but traditional mariages often have victims, as
well.

And, at 5:35 PM 10/26/2003, Chris Redding G4PDJ wrote (in part):

>...what (apart from the curse of two
>mothers-in-law) is wrong with having two wives?.  As long as both are aware
>of everything, and are happy with it: who is the victim?

And I have no problems with that.  I've never been married to more than one
woman at a time, but through other experiences, I'm sure such an
arrangement would not destroy me.  

One of *them* might, of course, but that's the breaks of the game. 

73
John WA6QPL  SOC 263