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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 12, 2011 10:08:13 GMT -5
In many traditional value systems, sex outside of marriage is a crime of theft from a woman's husband (or father, if she is not married), while polygamy is a respected status. define "many". i assume you deliberately chose to use "many", mike, as you could not honestly use "most". "many" implies less than half, which would place such value systems in the minority, which means that most value systems do not condone either women-as-property or polygamy -- based on your statement. yes? I leave you to do your own anthropological research. What I have done leads me to the conclusion that among hunter-gathers, such arrangements are almost universal. But I didn't want to cite references. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 10:26:26 GMT -5
gotta tell you, mike -- not a very satisfying, or convincing, answer.
any of these hunter-gatherer, almost-universal arrangements around today? and if so, what % of the world's population would you say lives according to such arrangements?
the reason i ask, mike, is that -- hypothetically speaking -- there could be 500 "value systems" in the world, of which 490 (thus "almost universal") live with such arrangements, representing .0000000007% of the world's population -- i.e., really small populations living this way. if this were true, it would be rather misleading to describe such living arrangements as "almost universal".
curious minds want to know...
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Post by mikegarrison on Oct 12, 2011 10:31:41 GMT -5
any of these hunter-gatherer, almost-universal arrangements around today? The answer is yes, but like I said, I'm not going to try to educate you on the subject, since it is obvious you are more interested in some theological question than a factual discussion. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2011 11:14:19 GMT -5
any of these hunter-gatherer, almost-universal arrangements around today? The answer is yes, but like I said, I'm not going to try to educate you on the subject, since it is obvious you are more interested in some theological question than a factual discussion. wow... we both have our own worldviews here, mike. ...slavery, polygamy, genocide, etc. -- much of which was clearly stated as being approved or commanded or even conducted directly by God. let's not be so condescending, ok? i suppose if you'd rather go with your assumptions than continue a discussion, then so be it. disappointing, though... |
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