You know, oddly enough, the "slippery slope argument" DOES hold water. . .

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One of the arguments which people used to argue against interracial marriage was that it was a slippery slope. If you let blacks and whites marry, why, then, eventually, GAYS might be able to marry, too!

And they DID. Just two generations later!

Now people are arguing that gay marriage is going to be a slippery slope leading to allowing polygamy.

Well.

What of it? If people decide to do that, I feel confident that they will do so because they will believe that it is morally and ethically correct to do so.

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As long as all the adults involved consent, what's the issue?

That *is* the issue. When you start adding more people you get into serious problems of undue influence, and consent vs "well okay". (Ask me how I know!)

Not that I'm against it, just saying that it's fraught with difficulty. Of course monogamy is, too, especially from my perspective. ;)

You also bring up the insurance issue...my visualization for this is a giant marriage-katamari, where every employee of the company is forced into some sort of bizarre line-marriage so that they can all be covered under one policy! Or, y'know, insurers could stop privileging married couples as if women were still supposed to be unemployed, barefoot, etc., and just charge per person covered (with some sort of discount like there is for multiple cars).