Don’t you think that group also contains homosexuals, transgender, etc, who have a much harder standing in “our society”? Or what about people who just don’t work monogamous?
Shaming them into (hetero) marriages doesn’t make them happier.
With an intolerant society, there will always be unhappy people.
So IMO the only way to evolve would be to become fully tolerant and just let people be who they want to be without having to fear, that someone else condemns them for who they are.
Yeah no, I don’t think this a good idea because it’s basically what we have now and it isn’t working. LGBT has been a stable 5% give or take a couple of percentage points for decades now. That means that 95% of society is heterosexual. We have to acknowledge that there is a clear super majority and a clear default. We can’t bend over backwards for such an incredibly tiny minority. Societies don’t function like that. The most stable societies are the ones where the majority demographics are comfortable and relatively happy. That’s what we should strive for.
Heterosexual marriage can resolve a lot of big issues in our society. From the crippling population collapses to loneliness epidemic to the insane suicide rates to the decaying local communities to the drug crises to the mental health crises to the depressing fatherlessness rates and the list goes on and on. The reason why marriage has been such a powerful institution for centuries is because it is a very effective way to integrate young people into society while also providing that society with a backbone.
Basically the point that I’m trying to make is that marriage ties people to something bigger than them. It gives people a goal and purpose, and that’s creating ans growing a family of their own. People in marriages have been proven to be happier (both genders), healthier, more involved in their communities, and be more politically moderate. Families seek stability instead of chaos, and stability leads to peace and prosperity. There’s a reason why baby booms are usually followed by eras of tremendous growth. We don’t need any new solutions to a lot of the issues we have today. We could simply just tweak an already proven solution that has worked wonders across cultures and time.
As for the LGBT people. The wrong approach would be to do nothing for the sake of appeasement. A free for all isn’t the wisest of ideas because not everything is okay (like incest for example). Don’t get me wrong, individual liberty is very important and should be protected. But humans need a degree of conformity. Obviously it shouldn’t rigid because that doesn’t work, but we need a form of it. I think the correct approach would be to do what I said but also acknowledge that LGBT people exist, offer them support and acceptance, put in place laws that protect and help them, and offer them ways to conform while still being who they are.
Don’t you think that group also contains homosexuals, transgender, etc, who have a much harder standing in “our society”? Or what about people who just don’t work monogamous?
Shaming them into (hetero) marriages doesn’t make them happier.
With an intolerant society, there will always be unhappy people.
So IMO the only way to evolve would be to become fully tolerant and just let people be who they want to be without having to fear, that someone else condemns them for who they are.
Yeah no, I don’t think this a good idea because it’s basically what we have now and it isn’t working. LGBT has been a stable 5% give or take a couple of percentage points for decades now. That means that 95% of society is heterosexual. We have to acknowledge that there is a clear super majority and a clear default. We can’t bend over backwards for such an incredibly tiny minority. Societies don’t function like that. The most stable societies are the ones where the majority demographics are comfortable and relatively happy. That’s what we should strive for.
Heterosexual marriage can resolve a lot of big issues in our society. From the crippling population collapses to loneliness epidemic to the insane suicide rates to the decaying local communities to the drug crises to the mental health crises to the depressing fatherlessness rates and the list goes on and on. The reason why marriage has been such a powerful institution for centuries is because it is a very effective way to integrate young people into society while also providing that society with a backbone.
Basically the point that I’m trying to make is that marriage ties people to something bigger than them. It gives people a goal and purpose, and that’s creating ans growing a family of their own. People in marriages have been proven to be happier (both genders), healthier, more involved in their communities, and be more politically moderate. Families seek stability instead of chaos, and stability leads to peace and prosperity. There’s a reason why baby booms are usually followed by eras of tremendous growth. We don’t need any new solutions to a lot of the issues we have today. We could simply just tweak an already proven solution that has worked wonders across cultures and time.
As for the LGBT people. The wrong approach would be to do nothing for the sake of appeasement. A free for all isn’t the wisest of ideas because not everything is okay (like incest for example). Don’t get me wrong, individual liberty is very important and should be protected. But humans need a degree of conformity. Obviously it shouldn’t rigid because that doesn’t work, but we need a form of it. I think the correct approach would be to do what I said but also acknowledge that LGBT people exist, offer them support and acceptance, put in place laws that protect and help them, and offer them ways to conform while still being who they are.