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Old 08-9-2008, 01:23 AM   #61
Zythus
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Originally Posted by 1961casey View Post
No, I do not make such an arguement. I was responding to the question by Devonin "Where is your justification that marriage is necessarily super serious and important for all people?" To answer that question I listed the circumstances under which a marriage is performed. You tried to dismiss certain aspects as being mere formalities, however, these formalities are still necessary for the marriage to be executed. The rest of your 'red letter' comments are very poorly thought out and flippant. Court cases are significant matters. Birthdays, while important, occur every year, while a marriage hopefully happens only once in a lifetime. Would you not agree a vow is more significant than a promise? And what do people do all the time that also happens with a marriage? How does that make a marriage less significant? Finally, what is the connection you are trying to make between a religious ceremony and marriage ceremony? Your final comment seems to be somewhat off topic.
He is arguing that the ceremoniousness and formalities of the marriage process is objectively ornamental and only done to further embellish and recognize the subjective significance it holds to the individual. The subjective significance is whether the individual deems it as important or not. Arch0wl's opinion is elucidating the views of a lesser importance by comparison to other events with the same intricacies.

Somehow, there is tacit agreement that without official and legal assent and recognition, marriage is unjust. With legal recognition, it becomes an event with intrinsic importance.
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