the reality is that it's probably just easier to pay the rent that way. your welfare check is based on how many kids you have. if you have three wives, you can have three times as many kids, and get three times as much from welfare. that's probably the actual welfare scam the muslim community is pulling off, and it seems to be happening quietly, like any welfare scam. but that's probably also how to go after them.
i don't like polygamy very much, from a moral perspective, but i don't really like lots of things, and that isn't a good reason to criminalize it. are they harming anybody? they might be harming the kids. i'm willing to argue that gay marriage might be harming the kids, too. i want to see more science, and i want the eventual policy adopted based on the science. my official position is skeptical, but awaiting better data. i'm willing to acknowledge that childless polygamy is probably harmless. that's just adults having sex; then, it's a direct citation of on liberty. it's when you get kids in there that i develop concerns. it looks like there are between two and four adult women upstairs, and they each have a handful of kids.
but i'm also increasingly worried that some of the kids are not kids at all but (very) underage wives, and that's not acceptable. i'd send somebody to jail for twenty years on the flimsiest evidence of pedophilia masquerading as polygamy, and i wouldn't have the slightest interest in cultural relativity. that is not acceptable, it's against the law, it's unambiguous and the law needs to be aggressively enforced, because it's clear that this is happening in canada's muslim community. i will call the apartment upstairs in as an underage whore house if i see any evidence at all upholding my suspicion, but i'm not there yet. there's just too many kids, and too many of those kids are young girls.
so, i dunno.
i'm uncomfortable with this but i will abide by the harm principle and not react unless i sense harm, but will react if i do.