Recent? The Romans and Mesopotamians also had marriage laws.
The only real change was separating the religion from the state. In some places, marriages went with the state and the church adds an additional wedding with different vows. And in others, it went with the church, and the state just acknowledges existing marriages.
Sure, but, those two governments don't represent a large portion of humanity, and tribal cultures don't have a formal state, but lean very heavily on customs/tradition.
More primitive forms of government just have more primitive forms of contracts (customs) and more primitive forms of enforcement (take him behind the shed).
I'm not sure why it needs to be more complicated than that.
Men got tired of beating each other up.
*some men
I think a lot of modern men are actually chafing at the lack of opportunity to beat up scoundrels and shoot cads.
That did tend to improve the gene pool and keep life less chaotic, it's true.
Could probably campaign to bring back dueling and lynch mobs and win. 😂
Woodchipper Party 2028
you get my vote for sure!
Every guy I know low-key has a mental list of everyone they want to mount on a pike.
i dont know about a specific list, but I do occassionally (and fondly) think about what I would do to property intruders.
this is what the old books promised would eventually come, a total reckoning for the whole world... makes sense that it becomes necessary after the rot has got so deep
The Great Chippening.
the majority of people in federal government leadership positions and gigacorporate boards are on the list for me, for sure, those people preside over the most disgusting, violent, oppressive criminal cartel in history, and then the patsies they use, the actors who play their good cop bad cop punch and judy show, they are next
I'm very OK with dueling being legalized
