[lit-ideas] Re: Europe (Re: Re: Dutch support killer of van Gogh)

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:40:46 EST

How about "Hey I love you won't you tell me your name....."
 
and I keep saying that adolescence is a forced and artificial  thing.

========Original Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Europe (Re: Re: 
Dutch support killer of van  Gogh)  Date: 3/13/06 4:06:31 P.M. Central Standard 
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JM: I find our discussion so far marred by the  assumption that we can pass
judgment on whether an arranged marriage is a  good or bad thing.

"In the West people marry who they love.
In the  East people love who they marry."

(Perry Peteia)

OR more  commonly,

"if you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one  you're with"

(Anna Gnorisis)

>This brings me to Judy's question  about legal sanctions. Surely the
>most appropriate ones  are
>
>(1) laws prohibiting marriage except by consenting adults,  with the
>age of adulthood equal to that at which other adult rights, to  vote,
>to drink, to serve in the military, etc., are  assumed.

Except... those laws vary greatly. You can drive at 15 some  places 
where you can vote at 18 and not drink until 21. What should the  
arbitrary age of marriage be? I say 35 and not until you pass a  
subservience and compromise test. It would solve a LOT of  problems.

anti-arrangement
p


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Paul Stone
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Leamington, ON.  Canada


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