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"Divorce rates are increasing in Europe. Does this mean that marriage is in crisis? are you in favour or against marriage? Write a letter to the editor of the local newspaper explaining your opinion."

Flagellum Kinetoplast

The Daily Freakout

25 Triana Park

Heathergrad, Furry Federation

Dear editor or editors of The Daily Freakout;

I'm sending this letter as an avid letter of your newspaper with the intention of discussing or at least giving my view on the topic adressed last Wednesday by the writer and columnist Amoeba Hypotenuse in its paper edition. In the article she wrote, she described the decline of marriage and the increasing recurrence of divorces in Europe as "a major crisis that can only be compared to the Holocaust."

Without passing judgement on whether or not Mrs. Hypotenuse belongs in a psychiatric hospital, and with all my education towards her readers and followers, I must clarify that a much wider view on the human causes and consequences of an event should be required before comparing it to mass genocide. If I'm to say, our society is evolving into a much more diverse state in which people are pursuing and following their own aspirations beyond the perishing imposition of anti-human religious values, often getting to personal and individual –and therefore heterogeneous– view on what kind of relationship is wanted, sometimes defying the traditional concept of romantic monogamous love.

This societal transition is, at the same time, leading to a change of view towards traditional concepts like marriage or the permanence of romantic relationship, which are being questioned and no longer taken as an absolute truth.

However, that is just my personal opinion. I think those changes are something we, as people living in different spots of the enormous diversity of our species, who want freedom to be achieved, should be celebrating.

Thank you so much for your time and attention.

Sincerely yours,

H Y

Leader of the Flying Oranges Union.