They're not really that hypocritical...most of the people who think that prostitution should remain illegal are Christians who would happily agree that porn should be illegal. Heck, many of them would probably say that sex outside of marriage should be illegal.
Should prostitution be legalised? yes or no!!
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They're not really that hypocritical...most of the people who think that prostitution should remain illegal are Christians who would happily agree that porn should be illegal. Heck, many of them would probably say that sex outside of marriage should be illegal.
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I know, I actually love most of the Americans I have met and get along. Im just hoping the more secular and wiser of America will get a stronger voice and bring more reason into the equation.
Odd that, you'd have thought their faith, fear, and love for their almighty creator would have more sway than the local Police Department!
It's not for themselves - it's for all the other people who don't share their religious beliefs. They want to force everyone else to live according to their religious codes.
You know, that's the part that pisses me off. If they want to live their lives a certain way, fine. But when they try and make me live by their rules, it's time to fight back.
I have yet to hear you explain how your preference of careers for your children relates in any way to why we should regulate the actions of two consenting adults. Maybe you wouldn’t want your kids doing it, but once your kids become adults you personal preferences should have exactly zero effect on their right to freely decide for themselves what to do with their bodies.
I know it's a difficult concept, but it's called "society" and it's made up of humans who feel some responsibility towards their fellow man, the other members of that society. Think about it, you'll get it.
Baron Max
That's precisely what "society" does ...regulates what people can and can't do ...even if they want to or consent to it.
Can you even imagine what the world would be like if everyone could do whatever they wanted to do ...even consenting adults?
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Yes. So...?
An improvement is an improvement.
There will always be street prostitution. You can't hope to eliminate it completely.
That doesn't happen, unless your sex life impinges upon the freedoms or rights of other people. In fact, legalised brothels mean MORE freedom, not less.
This is amusing, coming from the person who always says the law is the law is the law, and it is immutable and unchangeable. Your naive faith in your government's law making is in sharp conflict with your statements above that governments are made up of fallible people.
Remind me who is arguing selectively, again...
Yes. So...?
An improvement is an improvement.
There will always be street prostitution. You can't hope to eliminate it completely.
That doesn't happen, unless your sex life impinges upon the freedoms or rights of other people. In fact, legalised brothels mean MORE freedom, not less.
This is amusing, coming from the person who always says the law is the law is the law, and it is immutable and unchangeable. Your naive faith in your government's law making is in sharp conflict with your statements above that governments are made up of fallible people.
Remind me who is arguing selectively, again...
No Max, what you describe is totalitarianism, where a slim majority decide what is right for everybody.
How odd that you, of all people, want to control other people, the sex lives between consenting adults, and somehow not call it infringing on the rights and freedoms of others? Prostitutes, street walkers, are adults, the customers are adults, both consent to having sex, yet you think that's bad, so you want to control their actions?
How in hell do you see it that way? If the two consenting adults want to have sex, why are you trying to force them to do it where YOU choose? And you call that more freedom, not less?
Can we control the sex lives of gays in the same or similar way?
Baron Max
So a small town can't decide how it wants to live and how it's people can act?
Baron Max
Childhood training and learning by association. You learned how to act and what to do without ever being told specifically.
Baron Max
A society is a group of people who live and work together to accomplish things that they couldn't on their own, including helping to enfore each others rights to live free (eg, by joinging together to fight if someone wants to conquer or enslave them). There's nothing in the definition of "society" that implies that people should restict what consenting adults choose to do, so long as their actions don't harm anyone but themselves.
I'm trying to imagine a world where people are free to do anything they want so long as it doesn't harm anyone else... and I'm not seeing a problem with it. By definition, if someone's actions are only harmful to themselves then they aren't your problem.
Each person in a town is free to decide how they personally want to live. That doesn't mean that one person (or group of people) should be able to restrict the freedom of anyone else. If you want to take away someone else's freedom, you need to show how their actions are harming you. And I mean actual harm, not "it harms me because I find it offensive."
If you find it intolerable to live in a society where people wear blue hats, you are perfectly free to get together with like-minded people and go start your own town where no one wears a blue hat. But as soon as the first person changes his mind, or the first child in your town grows up and decides that he wants to wear a blue hat after all, you're out of luck - their right to be free trumps your right to avoid any imaginary harm that you might suffer from being offended at the person's blue hat.
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So a society should allow men to stand around the playgrounds, takin' pictures and jackin' off for the cute little girls and boys playing? He ain't harmin' no one. And sellin' the pictures to other pedos on the Internet? That ain't harmin' no one.
And a man and woman fuckin' on the sidewalk in full view of all the pedestrians? That ain't harmin' no one, is it?
Baron Max
Pedophiles harm children, so there's a valid argument for outlawing anything that encourages pedophilic behavior, even if the specific thing being banned doesn't harm anyone in and of itself. It's similar to the way we ban drunk driving. Car accidents harm people, and drunk driving greatly increases the risk of car accidents - even though driving drunk doesn't harm anyone in and of itself.
Okay, since you seem to think that this would be harmful, please explain specifically how it harms anyone. Unlike pedophilia, sex between consenting adults is not harmful (in fact, it's necessary for the survival of the species) so even if such a public display encourages others to have sex, that's not really a problem.
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Where did the 'small town' come from?
Another unproductive tangent Max, or are you getting your threads confused?
All pedophiles harm children? What about the ones who just like to look at naked little girls, or pictures of naked little girls, and jack off?
So it's okay to ban something, some acts, which ...MIGHT... cause a problem and harm someone?
How is that any more or less harmful than a man jacking off while watching the little girls play in the park or at the beach?
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