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09/18/2004 10:04:21 PM · #1 |
| Should this timeless business be legal? |
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09/18/2004 10:12:44 PM · #2 |
Only if you believe in the principles of free enterprise and governement non-interference with people's personal affairs.
Still seems strange how many "conservatives" seem to be both in favor of its continued criminalization and members of its clientele ...
You might ask the same question of perhaps the second oldest profession (selling desirable plants/extracts which induce desirably altered psychological states) ... |
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09/18/2004 10:13:55 PM · #3 |
| I think it should... But then I wonder about the abuse of women and wonder if it will help or hurt... Kinda like making drugs legal, I don't think we can fully know it's reprecusions in the US... |
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09/18/2004 10:23:02 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Russell2566:
I think it should... But then I wonder about the abuse of women and wonder if it will help or hurt... Kinda like making drugs legal, I don't think we can fully know it's reprecusions in the US... |
Let's find out, make everything legal for say 100 years, long enough so that we give it a fair chance and to develop the proper social constructs. I'm confident that we'll benefit in the long run. |
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09/18/2004 10:25:30 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Russell2566:
I think it should... But then I wonder about the abuse of women and wonder if it will help or hurt... Kinda like making drugs legal, I don't think we can fully know it's reprecusions in the US... |
Doesn't it seem that our two great experiments with Prohibition demonstrate a continued failure of the process of criminalization?
... Unless your goal is to create jobs in the prison cronstruction and management business, the legal business, law enforcement, etc. The "War on Drugs" excists largely to support this infrastructure, not out of concern for the victims of drug abuse. You don't treat patents by declaring them "enemy combatants" ...
It seems obvious to me that regulation, education, and taxation of the product to pay for the inspection/regulation and the costs of any harm they cause -- most of which is a direct consequence of the drug's illegal status, rather than its pharmacology -- makes far more sense and causes less overall harm.
Sorry to take this topical jog ... prostitution's "evil side" (pimping) is mainly tied to the drug trade ... many women are tied to the trade out of a dependence of the (illegal = super expensive) drugs they use to deal with the emotional trauma inherent in being a slave to someone else. If Heroin® was legal again, women would be forced to turn tricks or kick, and wouldn't have to be under the control of their pimp and their dealer.
Message edited by author 2004-09-18 22:26:50. |
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09/18/2004 10:59:40 PM · #6 |
After visiting coutries where protistution is legal, I'm not sure if I like the idea for the US...
I'm also not sure how much of my deep down argument is moral... Should I really care if making it legal means less people graduate HS and more people gain degenerative-habits causing a slow downward spiral of society?
Fuck, maybe the US can become more creative and productive once every nerd who can't get laid in the real world can just pay some dirty whore for it?
If it was to be made legal I think the same precautions need to be put in place as is so in the porn industry. The new rules have made porn MUCH MUCH safer than it was only 10 years ago...
EDIT:
I heard a comedian I think the other days "ask":
"Why is that you can give sex away for free AND you can sell stuff, but you can't sell sex???"
Message edited by author 2004-09-18 23:02:06. |
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09/18/2004 11:23:18 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Russell2566:
I heard a comedian I think the other days "ask":
"Why is that you can give sex away for free AND you can sell stuff, but you can't sell sex???" |
Except in Nevada, where it's legal, regulated, and fairly safe. |
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09/19/2004 01:15:01 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Russell2566:
I heard a comedian I think the other days "ask":
"Why is that you can give sex away for free AND you can sell stuff, but you can't sell sex???" |
Except in Nevada, where it's legal, regulated, and fairly safe. |
It also seems legal if it is being photographed or filmed.
David
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