Polygamy should be legalized in the West

. . . ~~~~~~~ Rebuttals ~~~~~~~ ///My response: Con still seems to be missing the point to my first argument. It really doesn't matter how many men in X Western country currently have a wife or not, the raw statistics I have provided clearly show that it is impossible for every woman to find a husband, period. To clarify on my point, if there are currently 20million women and 18million men living in USA, it doesn't matter how many of those men are married, the reality is there will always be at least 2 million women left over. Therefore, unless polygamy is legalized, at least 2 million women are without a partner. /// 1. ) There are WAY, WAY more than 38 million people in America. My opponent's data is faulty and un-cited. 2. ) My opponent has failed to validate this contention because he has not provided evidence that there are in fact women going without marriage because of the sex's numerical superiority, which would be the requirement for this contention to be valid. Even with numerical superiority my opponent fails to realize that in addition to those that can't get married because of unwillingness on the part of others, there are those with literally no desire to get married. ~ ///As I said in my previous defense, this argument has nothing to do with the legal concept of marriage. Rather, it is to prove that Nature has intended for Polygamy to exist and to be practiced and therefore it should be legalized. /// Here my opponent concedes the point by saying that this contention has nothing to do with the legal aspect of marriage and commits the naturalistic logical fallacy by asserting that because polygamy is natural is is in some way right or correct. ~ ///First of all, my point does not fall apart simply because of some theoretical problems that could occur if polygamy was to be legalized in the West. /// The problems I suggest are not theoretical, they will become an issue if polygamy is ever considered. ~ ///Secondly, I never said we must practice polygamy in the West with the same set of parameters surrounding the practice in the East. /// Nor am I, in fact I suggest just the opposite. That polygamy, if legalized, should operate under the same parameters as does traditional marriage. ~ ///All the legal concepts that are required to make Polygamy a fair and sustainable practice in the West can be worked on by legislators before the bill is actually passed and implemented in Western society. /// This si true, but doing so would require so much change to the current system of marriage that the finished product would not look like marriage at all, and if it was left similar the system would be extremely easy to abuse for financial benefits in terms of tax exemptions. ~ ///Moreover, aside from all the legal stuff. .. /// There is nothing aside from the legal stuff. Marriage is a LEGAL CONCEPT. Period. ~ ///My reason for pointing out this fact is for Con and voters to understand that Polygamy is not a barbarian practice as many people may believe that it is. It was and still is practiced by many civilized societies. This supports my overall stance on the issue in a subtle but important way: It helps to cancel out the initial prejudice many people may have held against this practice, which could have clouded their better judgement. /// Appeal. To. Tradition. ~ And that's all I'm going to do for this debate.