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The bible is full of polygamy, Solomon alone had 1000 wives. The fact is most people are only going to want monogamy in relationship's and it works better when it comes to children as well for most people. If you have a family with five wives and twenty children that is not going to work out well. For meeting the basic human needs of all involved. Its a never ending competition between the children and wives for attention as well which creates negativity and neglect.
The other reason there needs to be restrictions on polygamy is you shrink down the gene pool and create thousands of close cousins. The results of this are already found in the Mormon cult in a region of around ten thousand people. Where in a century you ended up with inbreeding and what would have happened in a few more centuries.
The Amish are a good example of what happens when you get into the small gene pool. They are monogamous and they suffer from all kinds of genetic illnesses in high amounts because they have been breeding in a small gene pool for so long. That kind of shrinking could result over only a few centuries if polygamy was allowed on mass.
I have heard arguments for allowing it as a social institution among a neo aristocracy for carrying on more of the best genes. But the same issues apply in a even smaller community.
The other reason there needs to be restrictions on polygamy is you shrink down the gene pool and create thousands of close cousins. The results of this are already found in the Mormon cult in a region of around ten thousand people. Where in a century you ended up with inbreeding and what would have happened in a few more centuries.
The Amish are a good example of what happens when you get into the small gene pool. They are monogamous and they suffer from all kinds of genetic illnesses in high amounts because they have been breeding in a small gene pool for so long. That kind of shrinking could result over only a few centuries if polygamy was allowed on mass.
I have heard arguments for allowing it as a social institution among a neo aristocracy for carrying on more of the best genes. But the same issues apply in a even smaller community.