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The question itself is simple, but I will add my personal reasons for fearing the institution we refer to as "marriage".

First and foremost, I do NOT fear commitment, in fact I crave it. I want a life partner and I want the love and security of always having someone to come home to. In spite of that, the prospect of marriage terrifies me.

Marriage is, in the modern world, inherently misandrist. That is to say, it discriminates against men. How? The laws that govern marriage often swing in the woman's favor, particularly when it comes to ending a marriage. The law will, more often than not, grant a woman a significant portion of man's wealth and assets should a marriage be terminated almost arbitrarily. There is no stipulation that she should earn it. There is no stipulation that the divorce should be his fault. There are virtually no stipulations at all. A woman can, and in fact some do, marry a man for his money and divorce him to run off with it.

Children only add insult to injury, where a family court is much more likely to award custody to the mother, creating more weekend dads who are still obligated to pay child support, on top of whatever alimony the civil court has already slapped on the ex-husband's shoulders. That effectively means a woman can run off with your children and live with them like a queen on your dime. Not a very pleasing prospect. There is yet another disadvantage to having a penis in a marriage relationship. A woman can marry one man, have an affair with another and get pregnant, and then have her husband raise a child that isn't even his without his knowledge. In fact, even if a man does discover that the children he has been raising are in fact not his, and wants a divorce, he is STILL obligated to pay child support for children that are not even related to him by blood. This is true even if the "father" wishes to relinquish all of his parental and custodial rights. This phenomena actually happens so often that there is a name for it, paternity fraud. Never mind how hard a marriage can hit your wallet. The emotional and mental trauma that a woman can inflict upon a man via the marital system is absolutely atrocious, and to top it off the law will actually aid her in that endeavor.

So given all of this, my fellow males, ask yourself this question. Are you afraid of marriage?

Ladies, feel free to contribute as well, but keep the conversation civil. Uncivil responders will be banned.

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Basically, there'll be a ruling on whether someone can donate even more money to politicians (raising the current cap per election term of how much could be donated to rather obscene levels of 3million+). Now, given the history of the Supreme Court and Campaign Finance, it's likely they'll rule in favor of increasing the cap.

What are your thoughts on this? Personally, I think it's pretty damn devastating. More legal bribery being allowed by the Supreme Court for the rich to legally pay off our politicians.

I mean, wouldn't you find it interesting that the average cost to run a congressional campaign is generally around one million dollars (likely more)

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So what would this ruling do? Allow the rich to buy more politicians without the aid of a super PAC or others getting involved. You can argue money is speech all you want, but all you're doing is then giving more speech to others for no real fair reason. If you want to claim that money is equal to speech, then I'd say you better start redistributing that money so everyone has equal speech. But, realize, I don't want to redistribute and I don't equate money to speech. I think that's a pretty fallacious comparison.

link - money is not speech and this guy makes some good points as to why money is not speech.

Regardless, all this ruling does is give more legal bribery for our politicians to accept from the rich. But, I'm curious how those who are OK with the cap being raised can claim it's OK, especially without using the "money is speech" fallacy.