Sir, Butler and Boy ~ Sins of the Father ~ Page 11
And this, my friends, is why marriage equality is such an important thing. Not that I expect poly marriage to ever become a thing in my lifetime, but if same sex marriage could go from imprisonment to acceptance in 50 years… who knows? Unfortunately polyamoury is the bottom of a slippery slope to many people, along with marriage to animals, minors and inanimate objects.
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Oh, the expression on John’s face… Ouch.
ohhhhhhh this page is hurting me something fierce. i love the vulnerability both of them are showing with each other, something that hasn’t really been there outside of sexual vulnerability
Oh, my poor beautiful boys. I have too many feels about this page.
I always found it somewhat hypocritical that in my country (Nigeria) a man can have multiple wives but the opposite would be an abomination. Guess if youre in a poly relationship as a man with two female partners you could always get hitched here.
Where it is also legal to marry 13 year olds fyi
“Unfortunately polyamoury is the bottom of a slippery slope to many people, along with marriage to animals, minors and inanimate objects.”
To be fair, I was told this EXACT SAME LOGIC I was told by a teacher in middle school in the 90s about gay marriage. Because, you know, consenting adults are exactly like inanimate objects.
I mean, I guess once the singularity hits, we’ll probably have to talk about marriage to inanimate objects. If your toaster is run by a high functioning AI that really cares about you and toast and is capable of consent, is it still inanimate?
ANYWAY, I think we’ll get around to legalizing polyamorous marriages. The difficulty, in the USA, is figuring out how this affects tax benefits. Gay marriage doesn’t actually require anything special with taxes, it’s the exact same as when opposite sex couples marry, you just ignore the gender of all participants. With a poly marriage, you have to ask how the deductible is going to be handled. Does one of the people count as a dependent? Do we need to make all new tax tables for extra people in a marriage? Or is your new deductible the married rate plus one single person rate? Is a four person marriage two married rates or one married rate plus two single person rates?
ANYWAY, I’m a bit of a tax nerd, but the point is, even beyond all of the social stigma that we have to get over before poly-marriage is accepted in the USA, there’s actually some logistical questions that need to be thought out first on the government end.
So whether we get to marry our sentient AI run toaster or all three of our wonderful partners first is going to depend on how quickly AI are recognized as citizens. Because once that happens, then there is no logistical question on HOW marrying an AI would work, at least at the tax level. It’s just like any two people marrying, only the sentient toaster uses a digital signature.
As a huge Battlestar Galactica fan I approve of marrying sentient toasters ;)
One of the biggest problems to legalising poly marriages is complexity. As well as tax there are issues around child custody, inheritance etc etc. Even if they decided to legalise it or would take years to sort out the legal stuff whereas with same sex marriage it was just changing the wording here and there
Another problem is that poly marriage has precident and that precident is not good. Traditionally multiperson marriages have subjugated women in a BIG way so you’d have to work our how to make sure that doesn’t happen. Also makes it a much harder sell.
That’s not to say it shouldn’t happen or that it won’t but I think Tab is right on the time frame. Either that or marriage will get phased out altogether.
Yeah, I do taxes for a living and that’s kind of my thought process regarding marriage equality and other social justice victories – “Awesome! Another step forward for humanity! Sure is gonna be a lot of paperwork for somebody, though.”
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Ok, i’m desperately trying to post a comment and each time it does that… Not spamming, just having computer bugs -___- I was trying to say that marriage equality rather not be about “being able to have [you] as [mine’s] forever”…. :/ it’s about rights equality, children protection, financial protection and all, but i’m really ill at ease with that notion of possession that would make marriage equality important :/
Somehow I missed this update!! ahhh!! I love this page. It just looks so visualy stunning with all the dark inking on the stairs. *love*
Coincidentally, the topic of legal poly relationships and marriage came up today during lunch with some friends! I’m all for it. It came up real quick about how others “believe a relationship should be between two people” and that was quickly followed by someone else agreeing that it should be between TWO people but two people of ANY sex. It was also “interesting” to see how quickly it became a joke to everyone…