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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (542837)2/19/2004 6:22:32 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
This is an illegitimate approach because your requirement for 'reciprocation' ignores an even more fundamental level of reciprocation. To accept marriage we could quite easily add another, more fundamental requirement that not only must the people involved have the ability to agree to the union, but they must also be able to fulfill the agreement, responding to one another in such a way as to most reflect the biological nature of the humans that comprise the society in which they live-- even to potentially uniting themselves in the bodies of new humans. That requirement is most valid and not in the least arbitrary because it is what we are most fundamentally.

If the most basic requirement of human reciprocation is ignored, then requirements above it are chosen arbitrarily. What you create here is not marriage, at least not in the most fundamental sense, but something altogether different, with a new basis undergirding it. We may as well form other marriages with yet additional rationales undergirding them. The basis of a marriage between a human and an animal need not be based upon something so trivial as whether an animal can sign a piece of paper. It can be based upon the same rationale that permits a human to own the pet in the first place. Your brand of "reciprocation" is not required because the truly reciprocal and human definition of marriage has been destroyed.
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