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In reply to the discussion: Should Polygamy be illegal? [View all]Squinch
(50,943 posts)become breeding grounds for rampant incest,pedophilia, spousal abuse, cause most of their population to be financially destitute and live in abject terror of their leaders and their hereafter.
Not abuses abuses that cause an incredibly rare genetic defect to become epidemic in a population, resulting in deformities, handicaps and an agonized short existence for many children.
Not abuses that cause the regular uprooting of families, and the regular "reassignment" of women who have no choice to strangers that they have no feeling for, and who might not accept their children.
Not abuses where parents are forced to drive their 12 and 13 year old sons out to the highway and dump them, instructing them never to come back, on pain of hell. Which causes many of the children to end up on the streets and/or in prostitution.
Not abuses that cause everyone in a culture to shoot their dogs, throw out everything red, stop eating all dairy products, stop sending their children to school.
Not abuses where squads of enforcers travel around at night making people disappear.
Not abuses which cause an incredibly outsized proportion of their population to commit suicide.
I don't actually see too much funny in the comparison.