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  1. Newsgroups: soc.bi
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!ss19
  3. From:  orc@sybase.com (Orc)
  4. Subject: Re: A philosophical question...
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.233046.9627@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Reply-To: ss19@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Organization: Department of Ambiguity
  9. References: <1993Jan19.121759.16749@schbbs.mot.com> <1993Jan19.224648.28279@lclark.edu> <1993Jan19.235647.4459@news.columbia.edu>
  10. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:30:46 GMT
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  13. In article <1993Jan19.235647.4459@news.columbia.edu> jsb16@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jennifer S Broekman) writes:
  14. >Here we see the *true* advantage to polyamory: When you dump your SO, both
  15. >you and sie know that it's because there was something wrong/uncomfortable
  16. >about the relationship between the two of you alone, not that 'there was
  17. >someone else'...
  18.  
  19.     That's not an extraordinarily wonderful advantage, if even that.
  20. It's perfectly possible to be dumped for someone else even if you're
  21. being poly - your lover could fall in with someone with a completely
  22. different worldview, and one of the unfortunate side-effects would be
  23. dropping anyone who doesn't fit that view.  This is no better than
  24. running into the monogamy limit of "only one lover to a customer,
  25. please!"
  26.                 ____
  27.   david parsons \bi/ orc@sybase.com, if you're very lucky.
  28.                  \/
  29.