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You don’t need complex market forces. It is fairly common for people to disallow other people from doing things: * for their own good * for perceived external
by scarejunba 7y ago
You don’t need complex market forces. It is fairly common for people to disallow other people from doing things:
* for their own good
* for perceived externalities
This is common enough for drugs, heavy metal, child employment, and contracting that it doesn’t surprise me they would apply it to prostitution. In fact, I think the probability of women wanting to corner the market for sex is low.
- arcticbull 7y agoFor context, I'm a left-wing Canadian socialist. 1. Drugs should all be legal as Portugal's legalization of all drugs has shown us the war on drugs is a massive boondoggle. [1] So has Canada's legalization of marijuana. 2. Child employment is legislated on the basis that children aren't able to make their own decisions, and that sounds ok. 3. Heavy metals, I assume you don't mean the music, is regulated to protect the welfare of the entire population. 4. Contracting? > I think the probability of women wanting to corner the market for sex is low. I can't think of a single reason to legislate consenting adults exchanging money for sex. It's not for me, but as with the war on drugs, the medicine is so much worse than the cure it's time we dropped it. The only thing harmed by regulated, clean and safe prostitution is property value and puritanical sensibilities. Especially when scientists taught monkeys the value of money and they first thing they did was exchange it for sex. [2] That might be the most fitting epitaph for humanity yet, actually haha. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic... [2] https://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-monkeys-the-concept-of-money-not-long-after-the-first-prostitute-monkey-appeared/ https://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-mon...
- scarejunba 7y agoYeah, I'm sure you have these opinions, but lots of people with a high care index (in the Moral Foundations Theory sense) and low liberty index believe that we can't let people do things because they're going to harm themselves and they're incapable of making the tradeoffs. I meant heavy metal, as in the music. Contracting, like in AB5 in California. Etc. etc. It doesn't really matter. It is common among those on the left who conform to that high-care/low-liberty set (of which there are many) to infantilize people, remove any agency they have, and then claim to be protecting them. You don't need to invent this twisted "women want to corner the market for sex" crap to justify it. You just need people who think "oh no, those prostitutes must be doing it because they're forced; let's ban that"
- PTPoster 7y agoA created an account just to tell you that you are wrong about Portuguese laws. It's a common mistake. Here in Portugal drug use is what we call ”decriminalized”. It's forbidden but not persecutted/punishable. But I agree that going after drug users is a waste of effort, and more contries should do like us and just go after dealers and distributors. The only way you could go after users is if you use an extreme islam way, death penalty. Not very ethical.
- arcticbull 7y agoIndeed, I'm usually more careful to distinguish legalization and decriminalization. Marijuana is however legal in Canada.
- brutt 7y agoMarijuana is still illegal in USA.
- arcticbull 7y agoWell, not federally, I guess it's an opinion question re: how you feel about states rights.