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oKAY so Question. Why is pollygomy illegal ? I mean shoot some people choose to be Monogomist for negative reason's such as money, green cards, and exc. So whats the dif techniqually. Cuz in neither of those situation's is someone TRULY faithful to one another, but each makes you happy. SO WHY IS IT ILLEGAL ? &&& NOOOOOOO im not polligamist, just wondering. ????

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The answer to that question is that most Polygamist societies either are two class societies or they become two class societies eventually.

Generally speaking in a society there is roughly the same amount of women as their are men. So a society could maintain itself well enough, through monogamy. One wife one husband. It works out mathematically and everyone is happy.

The only thing is most societies did not do that. Most societies in history allowed more than one wife, though often there may have been a lot of rules about it.

Let us say that one third of the men marry all of the women. Then what do all the other men do?

You have two thirds of the men who are milling about. And then a war starts. Suppose that this war is against strict monogamists (a foreign nation). Who is going to fight harder, the monogamists or the polygamists?

Remember the two third men who are milling about? Do they look to you to be all motivated, to fight for the one third with the wives to you?

Once the fighting begins the monogamist are organized and are a band of the brothers and for most part everyone loves each other, where as the polygamists hate each, at least the two third hate the one third.

So the monogamists win in battle, they institute their laws and there language, and monogamy becomes the law for everyone, because eventually the monogamist take over everyone. The entire world becomes monogamist eventually.

This actually happened. First the monogamist Greeks, then the monogamist Romans, took over the world of Mesopotamia. Whenever the other countries fought against them the Greeks and then later the Romans, were far superior in actual combat. Band of brothers verses people that were jealous and envious and hated each other.

It really is as simple as that. Call it societal Darwinism. The Greco-Roman society is where our laws about marriage primarily come from. All the countries of Europe continued the Greco-Roman tradition of monogamy.

Europe in turn became the preeminent power in the world, thanks in no small part to the policy of monogamy, while at the same time as this was happening, the rest of the world was mostly polygamist.

Monogamy-ism helps social cohesion leading to greater cooperation among the soldier class, and also greater economic prosperity as well (the economic class is likewise more cooperative with each other).

In a nutshell that is why our laws and traditions are the way that they are.

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@KendrickLamar2014 you really thought that out didnt you ? lol (:

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:D Psh welp at least i know the full extents now. I only asked cuz my mom watched the full sister wives series last week

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On the other side, consider this. Polygamy concentrates people closer to the source of wealth. This is particularly true in a tribal society.
A poor man can't afford more than one wife. A rich man can take care of several families. So each wife and the children produced have a high standard of living than they might have with a single man with less money and power.
The extra male arguement is specious. There is no evidence to support the idea that less men will be married in a polygamous society. In fact, the evidence shows that more women are married and the unmarried men numbers stay the same.
We currently have a problem with the number of single mother families. What if those single mothers could be married to a man who would be a real father and husband and financially support them? Does it matter if he is also married to other women and has other families. If he takes care of all of them, it's a good result.
Polygamy is outlawed because most people think of the sex. But we have single men spreading their DNA to multiple women now and let the government deal with the children.

Another arguement against polygamy is that it makes women unequal. That's true of some of the polygamist groups in America who "marry" off teenage girls to one guy and allow abuse to happen in the name of their religon. But historically polygamist wives have been free to pursue other interests because family responsibilities are shared.