Link: Can you not tell a person that you love them in other ways than marrying them? Why does marrying them tell them that? Shouldn't they know that without needing whatever it is you think marriage says (what do you think it says)
I'm not disagreeing, simply playing devils advocate to explore what you're saying. Can you elaborate?
Illumina: You say marriage is the union of two people who love each other. How are they united? Is the ceremony mystical in your eyes? What are you calling marriage? The state of being? The state of being united with another person you love? If so, then are defactos - people who live together for years - married according to you, as per U.K. common law?
Do we need to call it marriage to be in fact married? (Depending on what marriage is of course)
What of political marriages of old. Because they weren't love driven, were those marriages null and void in your eyes?
C'mon... let's seriously explore the notion here. Fundamentally. For something so present in human society we have very few answers.
Perhaps I should make some polarising one-eyed statement to galvanise responses and provoke discussion.