This is a test, to see if your anti-robo program is working properly.

It seems that John Searle (formerly of UC Berkeley) touched this issue in several of his works on consciousness; language; mind and social reality. Specifically, he addressed what he calls institutional facts and constitutive rules, among other notions which comprise his philosophy of mind and language. Marriage, in his view, is an institution (or institutional fact), which is governed and described by constitutive rules. (This account is bare-bones, because Searle has much more to say about the construction of society; linguistics and a host of related topics.) In any case, marriage arose out of the need for conformity and uniformity. Governments wanted to exert regulatory domain over their subjects, for a number of social, economic and cultural reasons. Marriage, having withstood the ravages of time and social unrest, is viewed with some sense of reverence by government and indeed by its precursor, faith (or theology; or religion; or whatever other descriptor, one might wish to elect, uh, select...).

并不是所有想要同居的人都选择结婚。然而，这并不是严格意义上的重点。越来越多的人在约束比过去少的地方结婚(或希望这样做)。婚姻作为一种制度性的事实，具有其自身的一套构成规则，赋予了未婚同居者所没有的某些权利、责任、特权等。这正是政府和宗教领袖所希望的。同性伴侣之间的婚姻，尽管在私下或公开场合都不被认可。因此比未婚关系更可取。这也是那些执政者或部长所希望的。

No. I was just asking why there seems to be some difficulty in submitting comments. The previous one made above appears to have answered my question. Thank you, Laura.

To your questions (May 17, 2018, 1:13 PM): The problem was CAPTCHA. About four days ago, I was trying to comment on another post, prior to leaving remarks on this one. After forming my comment, I tried to do the CAPTCHA puzzle(s). After going through a dozen or so puzzles (cars, street signs, store fronts, etc.) I simply gave up and returned to the home page. Before then, I had never been subjected that much CAPTCHA interrogation. I have no idea what, if anything, I was doing wrong.