–Q: “Curt: Can we put the divorce industry out of business?”–
Well, that’s the issue, isn’t it?
We’re proposing a set of policies that should correct the incentives. They include, first, providing a middle option of temporary partnership by exchange of power of attorney, and agreement on the ownership of assets (his or hers to be kept, and ours to be sold) without insurance by the polity of the relationship, ending child support and alimony. And second, restoring marriage under the same criteria above, with insurance by the polity by restoration of liability for interference in the marriage and family by external and internal parties.
But there is a hard question here:
1) Do we want to do what is good for the polity at the cost of responsibility that imposes on our freedom of self-reward?
Or
2) Do we want to do what provides people with the most freedom and least responsibility at the cost of the continuity and quality of the people in the polity?
And
3) If we choose #1, then how can we bring that about when so many wish to escape that responsibility (especially women) now that we know the sexual revolution and the enfranchisement of women was a catastrophe? Is it possible democratically? Or must it be done coercively – as essentially paying ‘tax’ by the burden of responsibility for the production of generations of humans?
So yes we can put the divorce industry nearly out of business, and ewe can and must put the family court out of business, and in doing so remove the state from marriage once again.
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