Anonymous asked:
When normies practice polygamy, what actually happens is polygyny. It is from polygyny that many of the worst consequences of polygamy arise. The domestic violence, the crowds of unwanted young men with no future and inadequate ties to society, and so on are what happens when polygamy is applied to ordinary gender stuff.
Autistic rationalists do not necessarily conform to the same gender conditions, being a bunch of (lovable!) weird nerds. (I am also a weird nerd, as evidenced by this very blog.)
It is important to understand thresholds of social behavior, which means that weird nerds practicing something does not have the same impact on society as everyone practicing something.
Likewise, exclusively gay men practicing polygamy would not create a mass gender imbalance in the dating ‘market’ that incentivizes bad behavior (including child marriages as desperate straight men try to secure access to women), because they are all gay, so they would not have dated women in the first place.
However, it isn’t politically possible to have “polygamy, but only for LGBTs and weird nerds”, so multiple marriage must remain banned at least until people have the ability to change their sex/sexual orientation cheaply and with few side effects.
Also, the situation where one man has eleven children by eight different women has enormous costs to society and must be discouraged.
Outright stopping poly people from engaging in non-marriage relationships, however, would be much more harmful than beneficial.
In the Transhuman Space Future, some of these conditions will no longer apply, and polygamy is much less of an issue.
