No, there is no backwards. One is not a 'product' of the other. They are the same thing that arise from something much more basic and universal.

AND YET, you seem to feel the need to diminish my views at every turn.

Only your desire to pass them into law.

I'm laughing at you.

A smile is just a frown turned upside down

Business is the government. Business writes the rules and governments use violence and brutal force, murder and various 'legal' means to enforce those rules. And with business controlling our money, we are subject to hundreds of trillions of dollars of fraud and extreme poverty. Yes, government is a problem, when it is corrupted by prurient business interests.. And let's not mince meat, state run capitalism of the old communist regimes was a business.

I suppose you're right. I don't know how to argue with a 'flat earther'. But it's certainly not for lack of effort.

AND YET, you haven't offered any useful alternative formulation for why we are here.

I have no need to. It is nothing but a masturbatory exercise for the idle mind when the stomach is full and Mr. Happy content. It's not essential to anything, only part of cultural superstition to assert authority.

Yeah, and with this somebody's gonna need one. Can anyone say 'pump and dump'?

How would you suggest these people be punished?

Chain gang... Oh, seriously? Loss of their position and benefits and forfeiture of other assets and income would be sufficient. Maybe the word 'thief' tattooed on their forehead... I'd rather make them face the stares and curses of the people they betray.

*What's the best way to get revenge against a rich man? Make him a poor man.*

The real problem here is not the companies, it's the government.

Oh please, the companies write the rules for the government to enforce. The problem here is us. We let them do it. And only dangerous people should be in prison.

That would be cool, wear a Fresnel lens and aim it at whatever weapon being used against you.

They only come out at night

...you've been a river of sophistry...

And you of superstition, and a perfect example of Pavlov/Skinner/Milgram/Stanford in action, proof that critical thinking is superfluous for survival of the species.

The stone cold hilarious point here is your desperate attempt to look past the point of sex itself, as well as marriage, is to optimize propagation of the species.

You have gone off the deep end...

That's funny. You obviously don't have the slightest clue as to who holds the power over other humans. But thanks for confirming you haven't heard a word I've said all along.

Getting back to the original post, the only real tradition marriage holds is that of property transfers. Your 'opinion' and your amendments represent a very short 'tradition'. And it is a very bigoted one based on superstitious beliefs. You have no right to decide what kinds of people can sign a binding contract. It is none of your business. Learn to butt out. Or learn to accept being called what you are.

XP or AMD?

In the cloud, or any other computer network, you have no privacy. What is there to explain, other than you voted for this?