Dialog in Cloudcuckooland

Let me apologize at the outset for the length of this article, but I ran out of time during the trying-to-shorten-it phase.

QUESTION OF CONSENT

I had a thought-provoking dialog with a commenter earlier this week in this space, on the topic of what, aside from the mere consent of the parties, made behavior licit. The conversation began as a debate about the definition of marriage, but addressed the more general question of the nature of liberty in society.

Wealhtheow: What criteria would you...