A SIMPLE ARGUMENT FOR POLYAMORY
If a musician played the same note over and over, never changing it, this would be arguably the most boring song in existence, possibly the most annoying as well, not to mention that would be the lousiest musician in history. If music is to possess any esthetic value, the notes must change over time, in substantial variety, manifesting all manner of free expression. Even non-musicians know this, though they might not know the technical terms by which to describe what they intuitively know about music.
I wonder why it is that we don’t treat our love lives the same way? I mean, why stick to just one partner all our lives? Variety is the spice of life, so why not a variety of lovers as well? Likewise, if like a boring musician playing one note forever or a human being sticks to just one lover over the span of a lifetime, won’t the relationship also become boring? And like a musician playing chords, shouldn’t we all treat our love lives the same way? Why not explore multiple simultaneous relationships? After all, nearly everyone on earth has multiple simultaneous friends. Why not apply that same approach to intimate loving relationships?
Perhaps there really is only a small amount of genuine love going around the world, which may account (in part) for the reason why so many people become insanely and monstrously hostile at the mere suggestion of sharing what little love they may happen to stumble across in the span of a lifetime. Such selfishness is understandable, but that does not make it right, for such selfishness merely perpetuates its own misery by its very expression, its very appearance in the world.
