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Well, I object to this for multiple reasons. First of all, it would be nice of you to at least looked at the responses to this comment, and reminded users that many of those are ex…

This is super cool! Based on this, the most popular CS textbook is (of course) CLRS. For physics, it's Halliday. And for calculus, it's Stewart, a demonstrably suboptimal choice.

> This class of disruption can be worked around using VPN services, which are able to circumvent government internet censorship measures. Well, here's something for people who insi…

> Ok, so what gives you reason to think subsidisation (or even just recognition) of non-traditional marriages is going to damage your culture at all? Traditional nuclear family is …

> many Danes drive cars that cost a bit over DKK 100k Interesting, I'm curious to know what kinds of car are popular there. I searched a bit, and it seems like after Tesla Model 3 …

Well, that kind of comment adds nothing to the discussion. It's certainly not as an unpopular position among the "experts" as you probably think it is [1]: > "For the Greeks, the c…

Yes, because it's the country where I live in, and I (like most other people) care about my culture.

Well, the institution of marriage is older than the nation state. So, it's independent existence is within the realm of possibility. I agree that it's a vague proposition in our er…

Yet again, that's irrelevant. I think the point we are debating here is universality of heterosexuality/heteronormativity.

> If the state should be free to choose, it should be free to choose, not be limited by the constitutional text. I'm making a distinction between the state and the government. The …

If by gay you mean MSM, that's correct. But if you mean males wanting to marry each other, that's debatable.

> So you'd be ok with government subsidisation of polygamy? In the cultures which approve of it? It's none of my business. In my own country, no.

Not really, probably most people around the world have ancestors from different cultures and ethnicities.

> polygamy is seen as the desirable goal (for men) and monogamy is the poor man's fallback. But that's still heterosexual. > And cultures where abstinence/celibacy etc. is revered.…

See my other comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32544217 .