It used to be a better situation because the church was a community place where morals were constructed. There was a high social cost to separating. Now it's none of that.
Currently marriage is a contract between two people with the state being the arbiter.
The social contract is a huge element that is missing today. When you breach a contract and you don’t make the victim whole, the market penalizes you for that. People won’t do business with you or interact with you. It’s more costly to ostracized because of your mistreatment of a past partner or business associate.
Exactly, if you talk to anyone in their 80s and 90s they will tell you about how the church was where the community gathered and social contacts were formed. That was really how marriages stayed together because both parties would be ostracized if they split.
We essentially need a new church for the current generation, not sure if it exists.
Yeah the social contract I think is huge. If you’re a devout Christian then you don’t want to break that social contract. You wouldn’t need any violence from government to enforce that. The ostracism would be more than enough.
