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Originally Posted by SeeGeeWhy
No, it doesn't.
If you were defending a person from being executed by the state, you are defending them from unethical treatment, and not so much as defending them for what they did to be in that situation in the first place. You're not defending someone's right to murder another (for example), but you are championing the concept of forgiveness and rehabilitation...
The example used is poor, but I see what you are trying to say.
You're reading too far into my words, Agamemnon, if you think that is the leap I am trying to make.
Perhaps I should be more clear.
There are those in here saying the law is good, those who say the law is poor, and those who are choosing to focus on the act of prostitution itself... and rightly so, as this is the root of the discussion, and is the issue that ought to be debated rather than whether or not cars should be confiscated.
So that said, why bother defending the act of prostitution if you were not a client, or interested in becoming one yourself? I don't agree that the act of prostitution is a freedom that is to be protected.. just as trafficking illicit drugs or making/distributing child porn would not be freedoms to protect. All of these have a net negative impact on society. For every good story you hear about prostitution, you'll hear 10 bad stories.
...And the whole 'exchange of sex for cash between consenting adults' argument is a load of crap. People who go to whores are too lazy or incapable of earning sex for themselves. Sex is a gift and it is an act that is cheapened immeasurably when it is paid for and compressed into a moment of two strangers rubbing genitals. It is not an exchange between two consenting adults... it is a delusional pity party attended by two depressed, confused and desperate people. It is a symbiotic relationship that seems to nuture some twisted idea of reality for both parties, when in fact it is damaging to both.
Oldest profession in the world. Give me a break. I guess it is this way because there were, are and always will be a lot of people out there who are so spineless and afraid of loving someone that they have to resort to thinking that they have to pay for a little pleasure, and that doing so is a pleasurable experience.
Flash, now that is some funny ****.
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I've never purchased the services of a whore, but I'd like to see it legalized based solely on my desire to see as much harm as possible end. Like calculoso said about the 80/20 rule, I'd rather see 80 percent of the problems fixed with 20 percent of effort. Legalizing prostitution isn't going to get rid of the root causes of it, but it will help stop prevent Willy Pickton from killing 50 women and feeding them to his pigs because no one cares about the filthy prostitutes. It will help stop them from being raped, beat, stabbed, slashed and killed by their customers and pimps, and it will help stop the drug addiction that fuels the industry.