In traditional countries where people depend on relatives to survive, it is definitely risky to choose marriage partners exclusively based on romantic interest.
The advantage of being in an arranged marriage is that communities benefit from each other. For example, in primitive societies where the state is weak or absent, different communities might depend on each other to attain necessary elements for survival. Hypothetically speaking, if one community had an abundant supply of crops but did not have enough water supply to go around, and another community had an overflowing reservoir but were lacking in food, then a marriage might be arranged between members of both communities in order to share the goods.
The primary purpose in arranging a marriage is based on pragmatic reasoning and how much a family can benefit from another and vice versa.
In conclusion, communities of weak or absent states depend on each other to survive. If you are depending on your family to take care of you and help you to meet the basic challenges of survival, then it would be unwise to decisively marry someone based on love IF your family did not gain anything from the marriage.
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