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I’m not very libertarian, and am open to criminalizing vices for policy reasons where doing so has good societal outcomes even at the expense of personal libert
by ummonk 5y ago
I’m not very libertarian, and am open to criminalizing vices for policy reasons where doing so has good societal outcomes even at the expense of personal liberty. Even more importantly, I think internet platforms should be held much more accountable than they currently are for the content they host.
So I should be sympathetic to the prosecution here, and yet from the very beginning this case has seemed to be a clear cut example of a witch hunt with prosecutors engaging in bad faith tactics to try to force the defendants to plea when they haven’t committed any crime.
- haroldp 5y agoLibertarian here! If you don't really care if you step on a few toes to make the world better overall... Then we should still be on the same side of this issue. I mean say we hate the idea of sex work overall, and there are real problems we can point to that it causes. So we make it illegal. Now we have two problems. It certainly won't stop prostitution. And it's the prohibition that creates the pimps, makes sex workers unable to report crimes to the police, fosters the most unsafe conditions, increases the spread of diseases, creates corruption. No one should support this prohibition.
- drran 5y ago> It certainly won't stop prostitution. Why «certainly»? Why goal to «stop», not to «reduce by 99%»?
- xboxnolifes 5y agoWe can be certain, because it's currently illegal and has not stopped.
- haroldp 5y agoWhat is a plan to reduce it, that hasn't already failed stupendously somewhere in the world?