Dating: What's the Point

From reading the text book I learned about two different views on dating. There are those known as anti-daters and others who think that dating is not a bad thing. Although both don't necessarily condemn dating, the anti-daters believe that dating multiple people before marriage is setting you up for divorce in the future. There point does make sense to me because if relationships continually end at some point there is a probability that your marriage will end as well, but how else are you going to get to know someone. I think dating is necessary because you need to experience a loving relationship with someone who cares for you and then from there decide if you can love, care, and be devoted to that one person for the rest of your life.Also, I believe that most of my peers would agree with a same or similar opinion to mine.On the other hand "hooking up" I think is something totally different than dating. I don't think that you should kiss or do anything else with a person that you met five minutes ago that you barely know anything about them if anything at all. I guess it might be okay if you did it with someone you know and are comfortable with and can have a real conversation with but not with just some random person. In my opinion:dating-good and hooking up-bad.