Should Having Multiple Spouses Be an Option?

"Rouensims;c-18255290" wrote:
I have had polyamorous friends in real life, but I am not interested in this lifestyle for myself.

In the game, it seems confusing to say adding polygamy would be for inclusivity. More people practice religions than are in polyamorous and/or polygamous relationships, yet we don’t get religion in the game, ostensibly because it’s too controversial. Yet polyamory and polygamy seem to be just as controversial.

I'd say the difference is polyamory has never been used to oppress anyone. In fact the majority of hatred and "moral opposition" to polyamory comes from religious oppression.

Religion is divisive not out of some abstract idea of religion, but because of the things the followers of those religions have done, the things they have made into their tenets, and the ways it has been used to bring power to certain movements and in some cases itself.

If your argument against polyamory is your religion, or morality code that is based on said religion, and then you go forth and seek to call it bad, shut it out from society, and even being reflected in things like media and games, that is leveraging both power and position to oppress and it's coming in part from your religion. Though there are likely additional factors to you and society tied in with that, that may have been further affected.

Polyamory can't do that. Can it turn around and go, "ooh X religion is so bad it's morally abject," and get it blocked? No. It's literally just people who are capable of loving/liking/being truly interested in more than one person at a time. And sustaining that. In comparison to someone who can only do that with 1 individual at once, a monoamorous person. Monogamous just means that when you actually pair you choose to do it with 1 person at a time.
But this community can't even use the term polygamy because it was wrecked by people saying their religion told them to do this, and other people's religion saying they were false. And no one involved actually just loving and being capable of being in healthy relationships with multiple people. So it's not legal as another simmer kept commenting earlier.

But if we're talking morals it'd be much more harmful to truly bring religion in fully with it's history of discord into a game about life, than just to give people the option to love who they want.

Options don't mean you have to take them. If someone handed you a candied scorpion and it was edible, and they said it tastes good if you want some you can have some. Would you have to eat it? No. It was an offer. You could leave it alone. Someone who likes that will eat it. To some of you the idea of polyamory might be as off-putting as a candied scorpion, you can't help but think it might hurt you in some way shape or form.

And you'd never see that it's not even a real scorpion, the shape of it just scared you. Nor that even if the taste isn't for you, someone else might really like it. But you're ready to tell the shop to never offer those to anyone just so you feel comfortable. And if they're thinking about offering those how come they didn't do this other thing?