It's important for people to remember they don't marry other people.

Legally, people are marrying a law in their place of residence, marriage is a contract and agreement with the government.

Through a marriage to the government's law first, two people are married in the eyes of the law.

The first time I came across this it made me wonder how much people are aware of this central, third party in between the two people in their marriage.

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9rx a day ago | parent [-]

> It's important for people to remember they don't marry other people.

Of course you do. As you even point out yourself, you marry the government, which is people.

> The first time I came across this it made me wonder how much people are aware of this central, third party in between the two people in their marriage.

Considering that the traditional marriage process involves two people standing in front of representatives of the government and declaring promises to them it seems like it'd be a bit hard to miss? I suppose if others also don't realize that government is people then they might not realize what the people in the audience are doing? But, then again, given that the two people prepared to make those promises are usually responsible for inviting that audience to the wedding you'd think they would have questions about why they are there otherwise?

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j45 a day ago | parent [-]

In my post, it's about marrying a law, not the people running the law.

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Both marriage to the law and marriage to the government was said. I chose to focus on the latter. However, as the law is nothing more than thoughts people have, it too is just people. Any social construct is going to be people.

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		That's fair, but I'm not sure I understand what the point is by saying it's all people at the end of the day. People come and go and change. When I think about people in this context, if anything, it's a snapshot of an agreed to interpretation in words. That are created by people, and then agreed to by people, and maybe held accountable to by people. In that way, people are in a relationship with the agreement.

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