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There is no absolute acceptance of "using their bodies as they see fit" or "my body my rules". It is just a made up rule no civil society accepts. Otherwise peo
by temp8964 5y ago
There is no absolute acceptance of "using their bodies as they see fit" or "my body my rules". It is just a made up rule no civil society accepts. Otherwise people can walk nakedly everywhere they want. There is simply not any constitutional right like that.
What is similar is that you can't do everything you want in your own house, like experimenting on bombs or making drugs, etc.
I am not totally against sex work. I am just pointing out the reasoning is flawed.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>there should still be regulations around the commercialization of a vice. Why is getting laid a vice? Or is it the "paying money to skip the BS" that's the vice?
- Y_Y 5y agoIt's a painfully frequent strawman/red herring, up there with "weed is just a plant", "all gun owners want to do is protect their families". I think it's useful to assume that not everyone who disagrees with you is malicious and/or insane, and hence their argument can't be condensed into something obviously false or indefensible.
- Karsteski 5y agoSee, the thing is, is that I do find it malicious if someone wants to tell me what to do with myself. I am very much in favour of personal autonomy above other people's morals or ethics that they feel the need to legislate onto everyone else, assuming no one is hurt in the process. As much as I don't like that people eat/smoke/work themselves to death, I don't want a government having the ability to go and criminalize such things.
- temp8964 5y agoYeah. I have the same philosophy. The thing is that, other than libertarians, nobody really agree with this philosophy. Especially the left, who loves the big government and hates libertarians to guts, sometimes suddenly pick a fundamentally libertarian position like this. This is just totally hypocrisy.