system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I believe that marriage serves no purpose and, if anything, is detrimental to society. CMV.

I don't think it's necessary in modern society. It's just making someone your permanent girlfriend/boyfriend. People expect you to marry, but what other reason is there? If you really love someone, why do you need to sign a formal agreement to prove you love each other? How does marriage benefit anyone? In my opinion, it creates more problems than it solves. Divorces can be really messy, and the expectation that a stable life includes a husband or wife probably causes a lot of people to marry someone they don't really want to.

Edit: So I'm realizing that I would have to have a different opinion on this topic if I was actually married. Now I'm wondering how society would be different without the notion of marriage at all, and would we be better or worse off?
gpt
Marriage is a legal framework for sharing property and rearing children. It serves a number of purposes in that regard. Because this situation is so common the baseline agreement is usually codified in law, and even then the contract is usually able to be amended via another document (aka a pre-nup) as long as it doesn't negate the rights granted via the law.