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Old 11-20-2007, 03:06 AM
PokrLikeItsProse PokrLikeItsProse is offline
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A person dies without leaving a will. Does government have any role in determining who inherits? Should there be laws in place? If a spouse has a place within those laws, doesn't that mean that government needs to have a definition of marriage?
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Old 11-20-2007, 03:11 AM
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Default Re: my solution to the gay marriage argument

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A person dies without leaving a will. Does government have any role in determining who inherits? Should there be laws in place? If a spouse has a place within those laws, doesn't that mean that government needs to have a definition of marriage?

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Old 11-20-2007, 12:30 PM
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If a spouse has a place within those laws, doesn't that mean that government needs to have a definition of marriage?

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No. Anyone can make a contract with anyone, which specifies leaving their posessions to each other in the event of death. We do not need government to put its official "now you're married" stamp on the foreheads of people for this to work. If people fail to have such a contract in place, then that person would be effectively "single" as far as the law is concerned. The world need not collapse if we're left to figure things out by ourselves.
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