Everyone who believes in monogamy is religious. Sexual fidelity is a religious belief. You just think you’re special because the magical thinking you subscribe to is older than the latest batch of fairy tales humans have decided to believe in.
Sorry it’s not what you prudish secular Mormons want to hear.
Now have you ever considered maybe some people want or prefer monogamy? Or are you so self obsessed with your rightness that you cant conceive of someone who prefers something different than you being anything other than just - wrong?
Really, if you want to boil it down so far you can say poly is just a different religious belief. Any “belief” is rooted in faith. Gee this is fun.
Oh and I dont believe in monogamy, I believe in choice and trying to respect other people’s choices, so long as they aren’t hurting anyone. If someone chooses monogamy or polyamory, good for them. You are the one trying to force your belief on others.
Preference is one thing. You framed it as a moral stance, that’s religion whether you want to be religious or not. But please, keep going. The fact that you can’t tell the difference between “we’re apes, there is one naturally monogamous species of Ape, and it isn’t H Sapiens” and a bunch of rules that Bronze Age goat herders made up to increase the price they’d get for selling their teenaged daughters to their middle aged neighbors is fucking hilarious to me. One of those is a religious belief, one is not.
CHEATING is a moral stance. Two people enter a relationship with an assumed monogamy, I expect them to be respectful to each other. I have a moral stance against cheating, not polygamous people.
The fact that so many of you conflate the two makes me think you guys think being poly gives you license to fuck whoever you want without caring about if it might hurt someone.
You do not get to fuck whoever you want just because they want to fuck you. Sorry to bring reality to sex.
E: are you really trying to say that taking a moral stance on something is inherently religious?
Everyone who believes in monogamy is religious. Sexual fidelity is a religious belief. You just think you’re special because the magical thinking you subscribe to is older than the latest batch of fairy tales humans have decided to believe in.
Sorry it’s not what you prudish secular Mormons want to hear.
Oh is that so? Thanks for educating me.
Now have you ever considered maybe some people want or prefer monogamy? Or are you so self obsessed with your rightness that you cant conceive of someone who prefers something different than you being anything other than just - wrong?
Really, if you want to boil it down so far you can say poly is just a different religious belief. Any “belief” is rooted in faith. Gee this is fun.
Oh and I dont believe in monogamy, I believe in choice and trying to respect other people’s choices, so long as they aren’t hurting anyone. If someone chooses monogamy or polyamory, good for them. You are the one trying to force your belief on others.
Preference is one thing. You framed it as a moral stance, that’s religion whether you want to be religious or not. But please, keep going. The fact that you can’t tell the difference between “we’re apes, there is one naturally monogamous species of Ape, and it isn’t H Sapiens” and a bunch of rules that Bronze Age goat herders made up to increase the price they’d get for selling their teenaged daughters to their middle aged neighbors is fucking hilarious to me. One of those is a religious belief, one is not.
You sure are putting a lot of words in my mouth.
CHEATING is a moral stance. Two people enter a relationship with an assumed monogamy, I expect them to be respectful to each other. I have a moral stance against cheating, not polygamous people.
The fact that so many of you conflate the two makes me think you guys think being poly gives you license to fuck whoever you want without caring about if it might hurt someone.
You do not get to fuck whoever you want just because they want to fuck you. Sorry to bring reality to sex.
E: are you really trying to say that taking a moral stance on something is inherently religious?