So what does one do when she believes current moral standards, especially monogamy expectations, are inconsistent and unrealistic?Morality exists only in a full spectrum, in that it demands consistency in all aspects of it. There is such a thing as moral blindness, in that people cherry pick moral values to adhere to and ignore the other moral values that exist that would complete it.
As seen by the fact that throughout human history, working and genuinely happy long-term monogamous relationships are not in the absolute majority? For modern days, there is statistics on cheating. For previous times, unfortunately, only anecdotal evidence from history and works of art and literature.
History is rampant with moral hipocrisy.
I am not using that as an excuse, but a hypothesis that our moral system may not be a very consistent with our nature.
Yes, we can devise our own system and try to follow it, but we always interact with other people and their systems - which often makes following you own extremely difficult.






