[quote=briansd1][quote=jpinpb] Society in general pushes for it.
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That’s the key here. That’s why I say that marriage is coercive.

For social advancement you need to get married.

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Name a single choice in anyone’s life that is independent of societal pressures. Your argument, if it were correct, would excuse just about any bad behavior. Society expects me, as a woman, to be fashionable. If I can’t pay for nice clothes or if I choose not to, by your argument I should be able to steal them. Society pressures people to get advanced degrees; if I get into a course of study that just takes up more time than I anticipated, your argument suggests that cheating is to be expected. etc.

Society IS coercive – that is why people respect honorable choices that are made when it would have been easier to have made a dishonorable one.