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selling your labor is not the same as selling physical body parts

• humanrebar 8y ago
  > Poor people shouldn't have to resort to selling their body. This argument in particular applies in both cases.
  • vertex-four 8y ago
    Only via a linguistic trick. We could expand that argument to suggest that poor people shouldn’t ever have to work for a living - labour is, of course, selling your body.
    • humanrebar 8y ago
      Not "only" via a linguistic trick. There are several philosophies that hold that there is something special about each human life that needs to be preserved. Some of those find prostitution, especially poverty driven varieties, to be a violation of that. Some of those find selling of body parts, especially poverty driven sales, to be a violation of that as well. In other words, both stem from a belief in "human dignity".
      • vertex-four 8y ago
        A true belief in human dignity would also suggest that a massive amount of poorly-paid jobs that, of course, only people in poverty get forced into, should not exist, either. But that would require an overhaul of how we view work as a society, and we can live the happy lie of just banning sex work because some people think sex is specially important in a way that almost nothing else a human can do is. There isn't really anything special about sex work, societal views on it aside. It's hard work, but for many people it causes no more harm to their dignity than anything else they could be doing. Source: sex worker friends.