Yes - and comes directly from the changes in contemporary Roman law instituted by Augustus to reassert control over the amazingly chaotic legal status of marriage that had evolved by the late Republi… (View Post)

But not necessarily a monogamous one. However, the outlawing of polyandry in China and India in the 1950s, alongside the existing Western European position (and Japan's earlier change in that re… (View Post)

Yes - it's that legal/tax side that happens to be framed in terms of "pairs of people", and that's a hang-over from the historic construction of marriage from the prevailing moral… (View Post)

The two sides of the debate. We call them "the man" and "the straw man" for easy identification. (View Post)

This distinction between "personal" and "social" morals is an interesting one, especially when we start to consider units of "personal" e.g. "things that affect onl… (View Post)