Andrew Wilson

It's for this reason.

Divorce is contagious.

So if it's the case that this social contagion is eliminated because now we have an ecclesiastical structure, an ecclesiastical authority, which won't grant it because you get ostracized from that social group through excommunication, for instance, or not being able to participate anymore with that community, that's an application of a serious and significant social pressure, which can do the very thing you want, bring back that great institution and

absent the state, and it avoids this whole problem of common law marriage.

Because if it's the case that you can be common law married anyway, inside of a state, and they can get grounds for divorce on that anyway, then we actually need to have some social pressures to prevent them from doing that.

So it sounds like we agree marriage is awesome for men.

Divorce is terrible for them.

So it seems like we should be attacking the divorce structure here.

And it doesn't seem like you actually have anything to do that.

other than just avoid the thing that's great for you because this other bad side effect could happen.

Sure, that's like smoking cigarettes.

So why don't we attack the bad side effect when we have the mechanism to do it?

It's not if, we can do it now.

Okay, so like smoking cigarettes is the same analogy you're saying.

Okay, here, cigarettes in this situation, we obviously know it has negative side effects, so you would avoid it.

Now, here's the issue that I have with it.

It sounds great on paper, but we can't travel to the land of make-believe.

It sounds great.

The majority of people probably wouldn't do it.

And if you ask a guy, which this is an important part, they're not even prepared to even talk about that.