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The body is an especially intimate part of one's being. To denigrate it to be another's tool is no different than slavery, even if one receives financial reco
by yters 9y ago
The body is an especially intimate part of one's being. To denigrate it to be another's tool is no different than slavery, even if one receives financial recompense.
- commandlinefan 9y agoDon't you think that should be up to the owner of that body, rather than you?
- yters 9y agoPeople make bad decisions about their bodies all the time. When the decision is bad enough, you intervene. Drug abuse and alcoholism are clearer. You don't let your friend go down the path of heroin abuse and an early grave.
- esarbe 9y agoI try to intervene by nudging him/her away from bad decisions and make him aware of how his decision will affect his live. Not by prohibiting the actions. Prohibition itself has never stopped anyone from doing anything stupid. All it ever does is empower scrupulous people to make money of it.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoE.g. actor, singer, laborer, masseuse... as a matter of degree, each is a 'slave' to their client(s)? I think that's exaggerating the case.
- yters 9y agoNone of these jobs involve subjecting oneself to multiple disease vectors every day and arbitrary acts of violence. Plus, as the 'my body my choice' crowd recognizes, our bodies are one of the most important sources of our identity. To have others treat our bodies as disposable commodities essentially communicates to us that we ourselves are disposable.
- esarbe 9y agoThe current economic setup already forces us to treat our bodies, our precious time of life as commodities. Prostitution is just one example, there are many others. If you argue for changing the economic setup so that nobody has to do work they would rather not be doing -- I'm all for it. But don't make it sound as if prostitution was anything special in that regard.
- excalibur 9y agoWe'd better ban janitors then. And, you know, teachers.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoYou've never been in a crowded theatre then. Or doctors' office. And yes that same argument, our body is important to us, I'll repeat (for the last time) is important to all performance artists. Let's not project "I would be offended by this use of my body" to everyone in the world.
- excalibur 9y agoBy this logic all employment that requires physical activity is slavery.
- esarbe 9y agoThat argument could be made, but I don't think this is yters'.