Get the government out of the relationship business entirely. There is no divorce because there is no marriage. The declarations of marriage are handled by the church as a religious practice, and the government may neither recognize nor enforce nor establish it due to the first amendment. Your church decides when you are married and divorced, to the extent that you respect your church's decision or are wiling to choose a different church and/or religion. This also means no child support, no alimony, no child-based welfare perks for unwed mothers, and a cheating woman who drives her man away with incessant nagging gets kicked out to the curb on her own to deal with the consequences of her actions, unless the the church is willing to provide its funds as charity, because the church has no legal authority to enforce these things with. If you want to deal with the fatherlessness epidemic, you have to stop rewarding women for making fatherless homes.
Nobody should ever be compelled to testify. Even the defendant has the right to remain silent, and so also should any witness.
Witness testimony isn't even a net value. It's unreliable even when it isn't deliberately deceitful. Every time you remember something the memory changes and traces over it with the colors of your current mood and suspicions. Details you never saw are filled in by your imagination, while others are outright ignored. And deliberately paying attention only makes matters worse.
If you'll look at the comic again, getting the next generation is the least of our issues. And marriage has less than ever to do with it. And yes, I'm a libertarian on many stances. I don't actually care what's in the government's best interest, I care what's in the people's best interest. Government doesn't need this power, it just wants it for its own sake. And so it shouldn't have it. When homes with fathers are promoted, you'll get your next generation in a better way, and they'll be better for it.
Or you can start taking powers away from the government and keeping them for yourself so that government becomes smaller, and then you can be responsible for your own morality instead of having the government dictate yours wrongly.
"Government has an interest in promoting morality." -- Hitler. (And SJWs)
The reason we don't grant the government morality powers is because it won't always be your morality in power.
Get the government out of the relationship business entirely. There is no divorce because there is no marriage. The declarations of marriage are handled by the church as a religious practice, and the government may neither recognize nor enforce nor establish it due to the first amendment. Your church decides when you are married and divorced, to the extent that you respect your church's decision or are wiling to choose a different church and/or religion. This also means no child support, no alimony, no child-based welfare perks for unwed mothers, and a cheating woman who drives her man away with incessant nagging gets kicked out to the curb on her own to deal with the consequences of her actions, unless the the church is willing to provide its funds as charity, because the church has no legal authority to enforce these things with. If you want to deal with the fatherlessness epidemic, you have to stop rewarding women for making fatherless homes.
The government is in marriage because marriage is entangled with taxation rules. You're going to have to gut those too.
Sure, done. No marriage means no checkbox for married on your tax form. Everyone is single and checks single.
Unless they're like a conjoined twin or something.
How about court representation where someone can't be compelled to testify against their spouse?
Nobody should ever be compelled to testify. Even the defendant has the right to remain silent, and so also should any witness.
Witness testimony isn't even a net value. It's unreliable even when it isn't deliberately deceitful. Every time you remember something the memory changes and traces over it with the colors of your current mood and suspicions. Details you never saw are filled in by your imagination, while others are outright ignored. And deliberately paying attention only makes matters worse.
ding ding ding ding!!! beautiful post. I could not have said it better myself.
I thought this was a porn free website but reading your comment has gotten me all riled up.
It's called a justice boner. That swelling of pride is a nationalism borne of freedom.
If you'll look at the comic again, getting the next generation is the least of our issues. And marriage has less than ever to do with it. And yes, I'm a libertarian on many stances. I don't actually care what's in the government's best interest, I care what's in the people's best interest. Government doesn't need this power, it just wants it for its own sake. And so it shouldn't have it. When homes with fathers are promoted, you'll get your next generation in a better way, and they'll be better for it.
Or you can start taking powers away from the government and keeping them for yourself so that government becomes smaller, and then you can be responsible for your own morality instead of having the government dictate yours wrongly.
"Government has an interest in promoting morality." -- Hitler. (And SJWs)
The reason we don't grant the government morality powers is because it won't always be your morality in power.
I disagree. I actually think it's impossible to have a big government that's for the people.
Sorry dude, but no.
Marriage is a spiritual union that has secular benefits (inheritance, ensured/implied support for mother and children, etc.)
Breeding is easy - we've been doing that for millions of years before any government was invented.
You;re making my point for me.