A followup to my earlier post about Polyamory.

Now that I’ve had time to think about it: I don’t support legal recognition of polyamory or relationships with more than two people.

My reasons?
- I think marital status should have nothing to do with state benefits. This entrenches it further.
- Not that this should matter, but many people in the poly community come across as uberliberal hipsters with an overblown sense of entitlement. I’m unwilling to let prohibitions against traditional polygamy be eroded for their sake.
- There is really no way to reconcile potential abuses with the desires of polys.
- It’s a way of expanding entitlements (welfare, dependents etc). I don’t want to pay for the expanded entitlements associated with 2+ person relationships.

- Travesties like this would be more common: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/02/08/4834833-sun.html

So, thats that. I’m sorry I wasted my time on this.