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Two things are very clear in this article. The first is that the author has a great fear of non-monogamy. The second is that the intellectual arguments summoned to support the disapprobative position are so weak as to be pitiable. If there is a case to be made against "normalizing non-monogamy" this article fails in every regard and therefore certainly fails to make such a case. Moreover, as the trolley car thought-experiment shows that there can never be any one-answer-fits-all-situations "moral" posture, any attempt to claim that anything, whether it's non-monogamy, homosexuality, or preferring Darjeeling to Assam for one's afternoon cup of tea, must fail always and forever.

In short, one must hope the author finds a suitable form of therapy for what is very clearly a deep-rooted emotional incapacity to deal with other people's relationship choices.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

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