INSURANCE INSURES NOTHING, NEITHER DOES A MARRIAGE LICENSE
Where exactly do the ‘dangers of premarital sex’ disappear to when a couple gets married? How exactly is it safer to have sex when a marriage contract is signed? Is the God-force that drives us to procreate somehow truly tamed and controlled by a piece of paper? I have never witnessed such a thing. If it were truly so, then all people would be devoted to their mate for the duration of the marriage. And yet couples have affairs. They also get divorced. Was the marriage contract meant to eliminate these ‘dangers’? Was the marriage contract meant to concretize faithfulness and/or durability? Given the current divorce rate, I would venture that an “officially recognized” marriage guarantees nothing in the way of avoiding what could/would happen without the official documents. In other words, the situation would be the same as if the sexually active couple were living together, sleeping together, and otherwise generally doing all the things that a married couple would do…just without a piece of paper allegedly guaranteeing eternal happiness and fidelity.
Look at it another way. If you buy insurance, does that mean that the terrible occurrence the insurance is alleged to prevent will in fact not happen? Of course not. But most people buy insurance to make themselves feel safe.
I think the idea of solving a problem at the level at which it was created is a sign of ignorance at least, a mark of insanity at worst. Trying to prevent a physical event from happening by using some form of physical symbolism is not only silly, but usually never works. I say ‘usually’ because the key to prevention is mental (as is everything else). Having insurance does not prevent a thing from happening. It merely provides us (most of the time) with a means of getting the needed funds for fixing something or otherwise returning to a normal life after the event has already taken place.
Insurance is a scam played upon the ignorant and unsuspecting. It is a way for selfish and fearful people to bury their fears in paperwork and funding, believing that the insurance is some kind of talisman that magically prevents destruction. Let’s be real, insurance companies have no such divine power, though they spend millions of dollars in advertising in an effort to convince an otherwise ignorant public that they in fact do hold sway with the Almighty. (And I find it more than a little humorous that insurance companies sometimes admit to their own lie by occasionally categorizing a natural disaster as an ‘act of God’.)
Of course the cosmic joke played on all of us is that magical talismans really can and do work towards prevention of various events, but only if they are prepared by a real magician. Good luck finding one. And the last time I checked, insurance companies are not magicians, unless you are willing to concede that they are able to make your money magically disappear whilst duping you into believing that their system actually prevents anything from happening.
Well, in that case, even I would admit they are freaking adepts…at fraud.
And as for the alleged magical power of a marriage license to create lasting happiness and cause eternal fidelity? Then perhaps you should reread this whole essay again…
