Marriage
John Patrick is a doctor and thinker who I respect very much, and today I came across a paper he has written analyzing the institution of marriage. Maybe you will find it as provocative as I did.
"Marriage is not an end but a means. It is no more the high point of life or the institution of status than a hammer is the high point of the tool box or the tool of status. Marriage is the best tool we have for building a sound society, but it is not the only tool we need, since it is a tool that is difficult to make strong enough to do the job. Marriage is called an institution because it is essentially a social instrument, a structure devised to give all the people born of heterosexual unions (everybody) the best chance in life they can have, that best chance being the stability of a family."
http://www.johnpatrick.ca/papers/jp_22mistakes.htm
"Marriage is not an end but a means. It is no more the high point of life or the institution of status than a hammer is the high point of the tool box or the tool of status. Marriage is the best tool we have for building a sound society, but it is not the only tool we need, since it is a tool that is difficult to make strong enough to do the job. Marriage is called an institution because it is essentially a social instrument, a structure devised to give all the people born of heterosexual unions (everybody) the best chance in life they can have, that best chance being the stability of a family."
http://www.johnpatrick.ca/papers/jp_22mistakes.htm
posted by Victor | 4:44 PM
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