From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!woods@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Re: Marriage as a contract
Article-I.D.: hao.343
Posted: Mon Nov 15 13:25:00 1982
Received: Thu Nov 18 10:21:08 1982
References: pyuxjj.349

   I must point out one major flaw in the divorce-death analogy. You must
plan for death, because it is 100% certain to happen eventually. Divorce,
however, is certainly not *always* going to happen. This is a very important
distinction.  The problem here is that you are attempting to approach
something that is based on emotion (i.e. illogical--thank you Mr. Spock)
in a logical way. I am often guilty of this (in the general sense, not
this particular thing) as well. If you really want to carry this logical
approach all the way, you have to consider the fact that trying to plan
for the contingency of divorce will decrease your probability of having/
finding a successful marriage. I suspect Mr. Glerum will be more aware of 
this after all the flames directed his way, which, by the way, I found
far more obnoxious than Mr. Glerum's original submission, even though
I tend to disagree with Mr. Glerum's opinion for the above-stated reason. 
His original article was evenly-toned and requested opinions on a view
of marriage, and all you flame-throwers turned it into a personal attack
on his character. Now you will probably never know whether your arguments
were heard by him, because he will be too singed by all the flames to
answer. I for one would have liked to have seen a calm, rational discussion/
rebuttal of his article, not all these personal vendettas.

		       Burned in Boulder,
		       GREG (hplabs!hao!woods or menlo70!hao!woods)