Tell me, no-body, how many poly people do you personally know well enough to comment on their "behavior"?
That is POLY people, not unfaithful people.
None whatsoever which is also part of my point. The only time I've seen poly people on TV or anything mainstream it's as part of a side-show thing, more like look at the freaks rather than hey look what this is all about love, consent, understanding, etc.
Not all directed at you, but anyone who wants to comment:
It seems disingenuous to go straight to the bigot talk when I haven't seen one shred of legitimization about this lifestyle anywhere, not even in this thread. I know to many we shouldn't have to convince others of anything we should accept each other as is but the world is an unfair place and there will never be a point where everyone will accept others, that's just reality. Like it or not you have to educate or your thing is no more than a kink.
It was once thought by very educated men that homosexuality was a mental illness, the darker races where physically less advanced than the white, etc Look at what Abraham Lincoln thought about blacks.
Whatever, my
personal opinion about poly comes more from a cynical view of humanity more than any moral objections. It would take a lot of energy and effort to make a thing like that work, especially if you throw kids in the mix. You can argue about community or whatever making it easier but sex always muddies things up and I can't imagine anyone wanting to get into such a mess with like 99% of society being against you and what you stand for without some heavy psychological traumas and issues behind it.
I'm sure those into poly might think this is ignorant but I'm man enough to say I'm wrong if given real evidence. Post me studies saying poly people aren't more likely to be abused as children, that they have very stable relationships/lives, their children are better off or the same than monogamous relationship children, etc. What is behind wanting to do this that's not psychological? it some vestigial gene left over from when humanity was poly? If you can't answer this for someone who's non-religious and has no ill-will towards you, you aren't going to find mainstream acceptance anytime in the next century, sorry.
