E tenebras, lux dormiens

just get this over with

Let me just post this and get this over with. I don't care about whether people define any domestic partnership or civil union between same-sex couple as marriage.

The thing is that, from what I see and have learned of traditional Asian family, the idea of a man and a woman being father and mother raising their children is simply a byproduct of the industrial revolution and is not the way children have been raised in a family household hundreds or thousands of years ago.

I haven't grown up in the traditional Asian family because my mom moved away from Hong Kong as a result of economic and educational mobility. However, what I do know (which I'll acknowledge as not very much) is that the children in Asian families are not raised only by their parents but also by their older brothers and sisters as well as their grandparents and uncles and aunts.

When a conservative asks how a liberal could prevent the creation of a three-person marriage, or a communal marriage of polyamorous individuals, I am dazed by the word choice, and there is no good answers that would not be harped on by the media. The thing is (unfortunately, this could be the thing that makes me ultra-liberal radicalis of the flower-loving group) what is wrong, morally and ethically, with such communal living? If it can be done for the best of childhood, then why should it not be so?

I gag as I am reading this because I actually am not willing to go that far.

Traditional family, hah!