@Romeo Fabulini,
Quote:It says "don't do it", I thought everybody knew that?
Which presented the problem of where the servants and warriors would come from if that injunction was obeyed.
Marriage was the solution. Duly solemnised on payment of certain fees. And when fornication doesn't apply in sanctified institutions. Just as defecation doesn't apply in well appointed washrooms.
Fornication is frowned upon in all cultures with varying degrees of contempt. It is not only the Bible. Some South African tribes insisted that a man must dip his spear in the blood of the enemy before losing his cherry. In some places owning a few thousand acres of good land is necessary. Malinowski couldn't make head or tail of the rules of some aboriginal tribes in this regard. All he could see was the strictness of the applications.
What Apisa should be doing, if he was man enough, is provide an alternative system instead of dedicating himself to carping at the one in general use and which I would claim has served us admirably. Including Apisa himself who is self-evidently the stupidest A2Ker that ever was and probably ever will be.
It seems to me that a man can't get stupider than to be carping against an established tradition which has served him very well and having nothing to offer to replace it. That's what street furniture vandals do.
