>>60753033>>60752994>>60752963>>60752947The main point that people miss when discussing relationships is that they only either see it from a micro (personal) or macro (societal) perspective. What's good for the individual isn't necessarily good for society at large, and you can have different views for each scale.
Personally I agree with
>>60752947 anon, variety is good, cheating shouldn't be considered a bad thing, positive open relationships are great akin to regular friendships instead of exclusivity. Hookers and blow every day is better than being tied down to a wife. This is a pure hedonist perspective that promotes infinite personal freedom, but it is actively destructive if everyone does it.
It's the classic free-rider problem: as an individual, you can watch your oshi for free using adblock on neighbor's wifi, not donating, and pirating members content. If you are the only one (or one of a small minority) doing it, you get free benefit without causing much damage and no one cares. However, if EVERYONE did that, your oshi would starve, youtube would go bankrupt, and there would be no more content for anyone.
However, the same idea applies in monogamy and relationships in general, and that's why marriage/birth rates are all at historical lows. Everyone is too self-centered to make personal sacrifices for the good of the collective, since everyone wants the positives of hedonism and don't want to suffer through difficulty that they can avoid. You might say "BUT I WANT a stable loving wife but can't get one", but the problem is that the girl who could have been that wife is now an onlyfans/instagram thot being flown out by literal oil barons, hence returning to a soft form of polygamy.
TLDR: Society is crumbling, and I can acknowledge that individual selfishness leads to it. Will I be a martyr and sacrifice myself by bearing the burden of a wife and kids? Hell no, I'm no saint.
