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is psychologically harmful to both the women who partake in it and the children who suffer under it and thus should not be considered as a protected religious belief but rather should be seen in terms of the outcome of the practice.

. However, the previous evidence shows that polygamy is harmful psychologically to both the women who partake in it and the children who suffer under it. By virtue of this harm, our liberalist culture should adopt the principles Shklar puts forth in her essay, 'The Liberalism of Fear,' that all women who come into the United States should be free from the fear of the harms inherent in polygamy. A clear decision can only be made by taking a critical view of polygamy that excludes religious beliefs and focuses on the outcome of the practice. Even if Charles Taylor argues that polygamy should be protected as an expression of the practitioner's value, the harm it perpetuates serves to lower women into commodities for men.

Judith Shklar

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