This is a political question, so you were somewhat factitious by beginning the discussion on legislative grounds. Essentially, your complaint is not about marriage laws but about this movement and whether Australians are either blindly moving in masses or their values - which you consider to be hypocritical - are aligned. It is an absolutely farcical statement to say Australians are hypocritical considering that you have no way to justify it and the reason why we had a plebiscite was to assist the government in ascertaining the legitimacy behind all the contentious arguments raised both for and against gay marriage. The result clearly exemplified that there still remains a sharp dichotomy of opinions related to this in addition to the fact that not everyone voted. — TimeLine
What you have said above has zero relevance to my reply.
"This is a political question, so you were somewhat factitious by beginning the discussion on legislative grounds."
This is not relevant. You said that the fact that the majority of people think something is true means that their views have merit. I gave you a simple example to refute this. If there are 10 people in a room, an 6 people think that 2+2=5 and 4 people think that 2+2=4, that does not mean the majority is correct. That is similar to when the majority of people (hypothetically) thinking that gay marriage ought to be legal, but polygamous marriage ought not be legal. The very topic of my thread has to do with whether that (hypothetical) majority view has any merit, not whether there is in fact a majority.
You should admit you are wrong here.
"Essentially, your complaint is not about marriage laws but about this movement and whether Australians are either blindly moving in masses or their values - which you consider to be hypocritical - are aligned."
Again, you should admit you are wrong. Show me where I said that "Australians are...blindly moving in masses" and are "hypocritical". I think it is hypocritical to support gay marriage on the ground that it promotes freedom, but object to polygamous marriage because it offends personal values. That is not to say that Australians are hypocritical. This is simply wrong, because you cannot generalise every single person who is an Australian as hypocritical.
You should admit you are wrong here.
"t is an absolutely farcical statement to say Australians are hypocritical considering that you have no way to justify it and the reason why we had a plebiscite was to assist the government in ascertaining the legitimacy behind all the contentious arguments raised both for and against gay marriage."
See my response a few lines above.
"The result clearly exemplified that there still remains a sharp dichotomy of opinions related to this in addition to the fact that not everyone voted."
This is totally irrelevant. The fact that there is a dichotomy of opinions does not have anything to do with whether or not polygamous marriage should or should not be allowed on its merits. Of course, in a democracy, the majority of people will have the final say as a general principle. But the fact that the majority of people think a particular thing does not render their opinion valid. The point is to critically assess the merits of those views.
If your argument is that the majority is always correct, then applying your logic to its extreme, all laws as they currently stand are perfect and do not need to change, provided they were passed according to democratic principle whereby majority rules.
You need to think further and ask why the majority thinks a certain way, and whether it is correct. Simply declaring that there is a majority and that their views are always going to be correct is a very superficial form of analysis, if it could even be called analysis.