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[forsyth]

In a culture where marriages are arranged for money or power or other things, what would you (current-you, not hypothetical other-culture-you) think about affairs?

Would it change if the marriage-ees had a little say in who they married, but not final say?

Comments

[evilcarp.livejournal.com]

Are you asking this question to find out what people's personal feelings about marriage are or to find out what their culturally-biased feelings about arranged marriages is?

Personally, I don't like the idea of getting married at all. If I were in a situation where I had to get married, then an arranged marriage wouldn't seem any different to me than if I got to choose someone.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

I'm asking this question to find out the answer. The idea came to me at work and I went "huh". It's more to find out about what makes people define a marriage, I think, but I'm not really quite sure.

[evilcarp.livejournal.com]

The only questions asked just for a simple answer are questions that have right and wrong answers, or those asked by people who think they have right or wrong answers.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Well, since nobody else has answered, I will. In a lot of ways, I don't think a marriage where the people involved had no choice doesn't really count. It's just other people deciding for them, and that's not any good basis for a contract like marriage. Or for a relationship of any sort. Yes, most people could probably tolerate most other people, but that doesn't make it right.