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"If the top (richest + most attractive) 5% of the men have 4 wives each, they're shall we say "monopolizing" 20% of the women......blah, blah, blah." God in heaven where am I? You could just as well apply your "thought" to pickup trucks.......which legalizing marriage to will probably be your only option.

I'm not quite sure I get your point (or you get mine.) This was supposed to be a "thought experiment." Pickup trucks and other vehicles can be manufactured in greater quantities to meet demand. Other vehicles can be chosen: vans, cars, panel trucks.

On the other hand, women cannot be manufactured in greater numbers; nor are there any other available marriage partners for men. That leaves huge numbers of men permanently unmarriageable. This has consequences beyond the individual.

I suspect that's why polygamy is such a social-ecology throwback. It's hard for societies to assimilate the energies of large numbers of mateless men constructively. In our own society, men who never marry are vastly overrepresented in prison; in Islamic societies they make up the bulk of the criminals, crazies, cannon-fodder.

Can we talk about this?

ROFL - Sorry for the confusion - suffering brain convulsions over some of the cave-man concepts and just swept you right up with them.
You're right - a marriage-less society would be this country's death knell. Give the embryonic stem cell gurus enough room and they will manufacture whatever gender balance we might need.
Karl Marx's theory about religion=opiate of the masses also encompasses the traditional concept of marriage, and that is what concerns me so much about the homosexual-marriage (call it what it is, gay means happy for God's sake), polygamy, anti-religious expression attitudes that are picking up speed.
I may be over-reaching but I believe the current liberal-leaning Supreme Court is going to try and cram in all they can for fear that Bush will have an opportunity to upset their status quo.
I have no use for ACLU - I believe they are a pack of socialistic communist-loving subversives who would not balk in the least if America became an Islamic nation, or any kind of nation with a totalitarian federal government that eliminates the rights of states and citizens to govern themselves. Their solution (and that of liberal/progressive/democrats) to the terrorist threat - assimilation.

My, Scahlett, how you do go on. I get carried away at times but those people make me want to spit in my grits. :)