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Re: Opportunity vs Outcome
« Reply #75 on: May 28, 2010, 06:34:35 PM »
I have no idea what that means. Please don't explain it to me. Sirs, just accept that you and Plane won, and let it the frak alone. I'm trying to be nice here.
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Re: Opportunity vs Outcome
« Reply #76 on: May 29, 2010, 12:36:12 AM »
I have no idea what that means. Please don't explain it to me. Sirs, just accept that you and Plane won, and let it the frak alone. I'm trying to be nice here.


Well, I would have liked to have gotten somewhere on the actual question we started with.

I really didn't understand where you were going with trying to claim that exotic marrage arrangements were not about sex , or why this was important.

I listed several sorts of sexual relationships that either are or should be illeagal or discouraged , in answer to "what sort of sex ought to be restricted ?"

In the context of the question , where were you going by pointing out that some of these marrage relationships were non sexual?

I really didn't get the use of that , and I didn't get far past it either.

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Re: Opportunity vs Outcome
« Reply #77 on: May 29, 2010, 08:21:44 AM »
I really didn't understand where you were going with trying to claim that exotic marrage arrangements were not about sex , or why this was important.

That isn't what he said. What he said was that exotic marriage arrangements were not sex acts. He had asked you to list sex acts between consenting adults that should be restricted by the government. It's important because you didn't answer his question.
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Re: Opportunity vs Outcome
« Reply #78 on: May 29, 2010, 10:16:42 AM »
I really didn't understand where you were going with trying to claim that exotic marrage arrangements were not about sex , or why this was important.

That isn't what he said. What he said was that exotic marriage arrangements were not sex acts. He had asked you to list sex acts between consenting adults that should be restricted by the government. It's important because you didn't answer his question.

I suppose that this is an interesting distinction , and indeed I was not makeing the distinction. Takeing for example Bigamy most states do forbid haveing two wives but do not forbid haveing two lovers.