I am curious to see if people think that without marriage citizens will live monogamously or polygamously... Or without a partner at all? How do we think that our society would "naturally" establish romantic relationships?
Given that we humans after all, and naturally have feelings and emotions and physical needs, I would have to say that a society without the institution of marriage would still have romantic relationships. Personal choice add on mutual decisions between the two people or three or however many people are in on this unofficial relationship contract would determine whether or not they would like to act monogamously or polygamously. But this brings me to wonder about natural human emotions such as jealousy. If jealously is a natural feeling, perhaps monogamous relationships would be more dominant? The institution of marriage binds two people together and causes them to stay together even if they didn’t really want to anymore, say if they had a child together. But if the birth of new peoples is not up to the married couple to raise, then maybe they wouldn’t feel obligated to stay together. I do think people would naturally establish relationships with one another due to natural feelings.
This leads me to question feelings and emotions though and whether or not they are natural or nurtured. If a person was born into the world alone in a room and have never been exposed to anything outside of the box they were born, would they know what “missing” someone is like? Would they know what “feeling lonely” is like? I would have to say they wouldn’t know. But in a game that reflects something close to reality, where birth does not matter, I would have to say that people will be exposed to knowledge of what is to be human and that humans should have feelings. Therefore, I would have to say having feelings, although seems like something evolved from nurture, is in fact in my opinion the closest thing to nature and being a natural phenomenon. And if feelings are one of the closest things to be natural, then romance (intense feelings for one another) as would jealousy most likely occur leading to a relationship of some sort.
Given that we humans after all, and naturally have feelings and emotions and physical needs, I would have to say that a society without the institution of marriage would still have romantic relationships. Personal choice add on mutual decisions between the two people or three or however many people are in on this unofficial relationship contract would determine whether or not they would like to act monogamously or polygamously. But this brings me to wonder about natural human emotions such as jealousy. If jealously is a natural feeling, perhaps monogamous relationships would be more dominant? The institution of marriage binds two people together and causes them to stay together even if they didn’t really want to anymore, say if they had a child together. But if the birth of new peoples is not up to the married couple to raise, then maybe they wouldn’t feel obligated to stay together. I do think people would naturally establish relationships with one another due to natural feelings.
This leads me to question feelings and emotions though and whether or not they are natural or nurtured. If a person was born into the world alone in a room and have never been exposed to anything outside of the box they were born, would they know what “missing” someone is like? Would they know what “feeling lonely” is like? I would have to say they wouldn’t know. But in a game that reflects something close to reality, where birth does not matter, I would have to say that people will be exposed to knowledge of what is to be human and that humans should have feelings. Therefore, I would have to say having feelings, although seems like something evolved from nurture, is in fact in my opinion the closest thing to nature and being a natural phenomenon. And if feelings are one of the closest things to be natural, then romance (intense feelings for one another) as would jealousy most likely occur leading to a relationship of some sort.