re: What's the point of marriage?

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Yes, but it has been crucial to the development of civilization.

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Exactly. Advanced human civilization isn't "natural" on a base level either. But what separates humans from other species is that we rise above our base impulses and establish culture and civilization through organized values and norms.

The argument that it isn't "natural" is very poor. If humanity returned to and succumbed to a mere state of nature it would be very ugly and primitive.