Comments on: With This Ring http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/with-this-ring/ Questions through the veil of ignorance Thu, 17 May 2012 04:17:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: synova http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/with-this-ring/comment-page-1/#comment-225170 synova Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:38:07 +0000 http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=4426#comment-225170 They'd been living together for four years.    I don't think that this can be seen as insurance being the motivation for marriage, but the motivation for getting married rather than "shacking up". Sigh. I should probably just skip the marriage rant. Yet if we remove all motivation for getting married, why would anyone do it?    It's not necessary for "living together" and it's not necessary for combining economic resources, and it's not necessary for having children anymore.    There's no reason at all to bother. Except health insurance. They’d been living together for four years.    I don’t think that this can be seen as insurance being the motivation for marriage, but the motivation for getting married rather than “shacking up”.

Sigh.

I should probably just skip the marriage rant.

Yet if we remove all motivation for getting married, why would anyone do it?    It’s not necessary for “living together” and it’s not necessary for combining economic resources, and it’s not necessary for having children anymore.    There’s no reason at all to bother.

Except health insurance.

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