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[terpsichoreanisms]

[She is contemplating her own hand wordlessly, twisting her wedding band between two fingers - turning it over and over until the skin on her ring finger is burning from it.]

Why is love considered more important than marriage?

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[entropic]

Uh — aren't they supposed to be like, the same?

[terpsichoreanisms]

Not everyone is at liberty to marry out of love.

[entropic]

... Really?

( think about that for a minute, kevin. )

... Oh. Uh, yeah, I guess not. Uh... then I guess people value love more because like, marriage is kind of becoming really irrelevant for a lot of people. Uh, I think I learned about this in sociology actually.

[peratic]

Marriage is an economic and legal arrangement. I wouldn't say love is more important, but most people probably consider it more altruistic and thus purer.

[meanwhileback]

Because historically marriage was an exchange of property owned by men, yet another way of controlling women. The brainwashing of little girls into thinking that marriage is special and meaningful by society is one of the greatest deceptions of the modern age, if you ask me, which I assume you did because you're on the podium.

Love, on the other hand, is real. From what I have been led to understand by those who have felt that particular emotion.

[echopraxia]

I couldn't answer that, correctly; I do not consider them this way.

They are important or not important for different reasons. It's the comparison of apples and oranges, no?