[extropy-chat] re: Rephrase the "Marriage" question...

[Mike Lorrey]

The idea of having to register ANY entity is what is anathema.

--- stencil <etcs.ret at verizon.net> wrote:

> On  Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:07:36 -0500
> in extropy-chat Digest, Vol 14, Issue 11
> nsjacobus wrote
> 
> > [ ... ]
> >  If we (whoever) were to build a society from the bottom up (on the
> 
> >moon, in orbit, in the asteroid belt, under the ocean, etc), ie:
> from 
> >scratch, what sort of support/allowance, etc should such a society
> have 
> >(if any) for "Marriage"?
> >
> One possibility is to build into the legal kernel a provision for
> Registered
> Entities composed of aggregates of two or more individuals.  The RE's
> could
> have the fictive person status of today's joint stock corporations.
> "Individuals," in time, would include persons with little or no human
> genetic
> material.  Society, through the organ of government, would be able to
> provide
> the RE with such benefits as respect for its possessions, validation
> of its
> contracts, and other guarantees of right that now are awarded to
> individuals,
> sometimes.
> Most Registered Entities doubtless would be indistinguishable from
> today's
> marriages and corporations, but extended families ("dynasties"),
> development
> groups, crews, and gangs also could be expected to achieve and bear
> the rights
> and responsibilities of personhood.
> Hm.  Sounds like 18th Century Italy.
> 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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