Lawmakers Consider Preventing ALL Marriage In Oklahoma

[Major Nikon]

39. That wasn't my claim

Here it is again for the cheap seats:

Not all "libertarian" ideas are nonsense. Reference Noam Chomsky for further reading.

Labeling something as "libertarian" and then dismissing it on that basis alone is intellectual laziness. I don't know that Chomsky has written anything specifically about marriage law. He does believe all authoritarian power needs to be justified. I'm not convinced you are all that familiar with Chomsky.

“authority, unless justified, is inherently illegitimate and that the burden of proof is on those in authority. If this burden can't be met, the authority in question should be dismantled.”

-- Noam Chomsky

I'm pretty sure I do know what that word means. When in doubt, I derive my definitions from the dictionary rather than from the people I meet.

au·thor·i·ty noun
: the power to give orders or make decisions : the power or right to direct or control someone or something

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authority

There are few things more authoritarian than telling people who they can and cannot marry and who they can and cannot divorce. I'm somewhat baffled as to why you'd think otherwise regardless of what those you meet think.

As far as throwing around words without meaning, privatizationn or socialization in terms of public policy refers to economic systems and the means of production, not legal concepts like government sanctioned marriage. The idea that marriage can be "privatized" is rubbish. It was never socialized to begin with nor can it be unless you consider the potential of children as economic production. I don't.

Now if you want to continue on your line questioning my literacy, or claiming something won't work when it already does, or misrepresenting my statements, then we're done here, or at least I am. If you want to attempt to justify why the government has an inherent need to authorize marriage I'd be glad to listen. Otherwise you're simply trying to contradict me with no reason as to why and I have no interest in pursuing that with you any longer.