Forming and Breaking Relationships Easily

No, this is not about divorce. It is about the nature of social relationships generally. Some
relationships can be formed and dissolved easily, like a temporary business partnership, writes
Arnold Kling, and others are
more permanent, with higher costs of entry and exit.
“Societies that place individuals under the permanent discipline of inherited or assigned
collectivities, and permanently bind them into such.” remain bogged down
in family favoritism, ethnic, racial, or religious factionalism.”
But the Anglsphere is peculiar in that its “civil society” tolerates, and even encourages
a much more flexible, voluntary approach to relationship and obligation. Read the whole thing
here.