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  • untorquer@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemarriges rule
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    6 months ago

    I see it two separate concepts. One is a celebration of the relationship you have which can be secular or religious but involves a ceremony. The other is a change in legal status.

    Personally i don’t see a marriage/union as more or less valid, formal, or dedicated than a long term relationship without that process.



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    6 months ago

    Committing doesn’t overrule consent, nor does it inhibit your choice to change your mind. I agree marriage doesn’t give either partner a “right” to sex but neither does it give a “right” to a partnership.

    I’m being a pedant, i assume you meant to use “committing” in two different senses there: agreeing while maintaining agency vs. agreeing and foregoing agency. The earlier comments could be interpreted using either sense to get a different meaning, and i think the former was intended.







  • Pharmaceuticals are life saving for people in various conditions whether thyroid issues, achieving a body that can exercise in the first place, or fast interdiction for diseases associated with excess body fat. But yeah i agree with your point if someone’s problem is their own choice in diet and exercise.

    When you go off GLP-1s you generally gain all that weight back. So when they’re discussed in the context of saving airlines on fuel costs it’s not that far a leap from cynicism about pharmaceutical companies being pretty excited about rising popularity in a take-forever-drug.

    Capitalism is so gross…