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Human trafficking is not the only consideration. There is health and safety of sex workers, issue of tying public resources to police voluntary victimless acts

Human trafficking is not the only consideration. There is health and safety of sex workers, issue of tying public resources to police voluntary victimless acts as well as just freedom to make choices about your life. Prohibition makes all the above significantly worse. You would need a lot of compelling evidence it helps reducing trafficking to even get into a reasonable debate on it. I highly doubt it was ever about trafficking to begin with. It's about various groups (on both right and left) wanting to tell people what they are and are not allowed to do with their bodies.

Iv 7y ago
> It's about various groups (on both right and left) wanting to tell people what they are and are not allowed to do with their bodies. Exactly. That's what makes me bitter about these questions. Legalization of prositution is actually an interesting question as you can find left-wing and right-wing arguments for and against. It has a potential of being very divisive or unifying across party lines. And about health issues, I agree it is an important one, but sorry, if the workers we are talking about are free of their career choices, I think it comes after the question of people who do not have a choice.
- bluecalm 7y ago
  There are many other things you can do to reduce trafficking though. You can be more aggressive setting up honey pots and going after traffickers or make borders more secure or invest in social services to help people in rough life situation to name a few. I don't want the kind of thinking that sacrifices freedom and moral principles so the bad guys have less avenues to profit to dominate our world. For all we know if they can't do trafficking they will switch to other criminal activity and hurt people there. They are the problem not the people who exchange sex for money so let's go after the actual problem.

Iv 7y ago

> It's about various groups (on both right and left) wanting to tell people what they are and are not allowed to do with their bodies. Exactly. That's what makes me bitter about these questions. Legalization of prositution is actually an interesting question as you can find left-wing and right-wing arguments for and against. It has a potential of being very divisive or unifying across party lines. And about health issues, I agree it is an important one, but sorry, if the workers we are talking about are free of their career choices, I think it comes after the question of people who do not have a choice.

bluecalm 7y ago
There are many other things you can do to reduce trafficking though. You can be more aggressive setting up honey pots and going after traffickers or make borders more secure or invest in social services to help people in rough life situation to name a few. I don't want the kind of thinking that sacrifices freedom and moral principles so the bad guys have less avenues to profit to dominate our world. For all we know if they can't do trafficking they will switch to other criminal activity and hurt people there. They are the problem not the people who exchange sex for money so let's go after the actual problem.