Charlie Kirk's Decay Argument for Defending Monogamy

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Charlie Kirk's defense of monogamy leaned on a decay metaphor he borrowed from physics: societies naturally drift away from the structures that made them successful, the same way the second law of thermodynamics describes entropy, which is why prosperous, safe societies tend to abandon traditional marriage even though stable pair-bonding produces demonstrably better outcomes. An evolutionary psychologist pushed back directly on that framing, arguing that roughly half of adults develop attachment patterns that make lifelong pair bonding genuinely difficult, and pressed Kirk on an apparent inconsistency: why he rejected top-down control in economics as incompatible with how decentralized markets actually adapt to reality, yet still wanted to impose a single rigid standard on human relationships despite that same biological variation. Kirk did not concede the point, treating the tension between individual variation and moral absolutes as evidence the psychologist wanted to excuse decline rather than resist it. Candace Owens made a related argument from a different angle, using model Emily Ratajkowski's post-divorce writing about casual sex as a case study in what she considers the false promise of promiscuity, arguing it leads to depression rather than the liberation it claims to offer, and pointing to monogamy and family as the actual, evidence-backed path to lasting happiness.