@extremely_introverted With all due respect but I think you are trying to justify a wrong doing because your goal is good. The rub is, it cannot be proven as wrongdoing off its base tenets. One cannot be inside every coupling to know if it is all about her getting a Green Card, and him getting a sex slave any more than those who marry or shack up here with famous, wealthy or powerful people do so just for what they can get out of it. I am all open if you can make that case.
@cazzie [… and @Hypocrisy_Central how does your scenario of a woman marrying a wealthy man and then walking away with half even begin to equate with your initial mail order bride story?
The same way as your comment about slavery and prostitution has anything to do with it. Unless I read you and some others incorrectly, as to say a woman who would be willing to marry a foreigner in a better nation or situation is somehow a prostitute trading her body to him sexually to be rescued, one could make the same claim of millions of women in the US who marry men of fame, wealth, or political power; they are marrying to better their vertical position in society or to escape the ”hood” or the barrio.
@Darth_Algar It really amazes me the degree to which @Hypocrisy_Central, Fluther’s most Godly, most moral poster, is going to try to justify an essentially immoral practice.
First off, I am not advocating an immoral practice; they are ending up as man and wife; one man, one woman, in marriage—straight biblical.
Second, if we were using a better system, that of the Lord’s, we could get to the bottom of things fine, but since you (and others) can’t rise up high enough to dwell there and use it, there is only the system of this world left, so that is where I have to deal with you on. If the system is flawed, look at the source and you have your answer why it doesn’t work, or it turns against you.
@talljasperman I wonder if a poligamist can get a bulk discount?
Maybe something close to Match.com of the Middle East might have an answer. It is a good question, maybe you can investigate and report back, as with most dating sites, I don’t think they advocate users dating or marrying several people at once, but I don’t know if they would do anything to prevent it.