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No but it follows that cheating is wrong...just like prostitution. edit - the intense support for prostitution on HN (mostly computer programmers) will never c

• Manuel_D 5y ago
  Sure, infidelity is wrong - regardless of whether it's with a sex worker or in a normal relationship. But it doesn't follow that the former is wrong, across the board. The idea that sex work is wrong because someone could commit infidelity with a sex worker is as non-sensical as claiming bars are immoral because someone could cheat on their spouse with a partner they meet at a bar.
• interator7 5y ago
  How? Cheating is, well, cheating on your implicit agreement with your spouse/partner. Prostitution, when done correctly, is a consensual agreement between two people. Essentially, there's no case in which cheating is not "wrong." There's many where prostitution isn't.
• mariusor 5y ago
  Maybe you're blinded by your biases. It's not necessarily support for prostitution that you see (with all the seedy implications that your edit makes) but support for any person to have autonomy of their body in whichever way they see fit, including making a living by selling access to it to other people. The only side of sex work which is "wrong" and should be vilified, are the abuses that are prevalent in our society due to its illegality. Morality is not universal, so yours has no more value than anyone else's.
  • slibhb 5y ago
    > It's not necessarily support for prostitution that you see (with all the seedy implications that your edit makes) but support for any person to have autonomy of their body in whichever way they see fit, including making a living by selling access to it to other people. Great. Let's legalize selling yourself into slavery while we're at it. > Morality is not universal, so yours has no more value than anyone else's. Morality is universal, it's not mine though.
    • Manuel_D 5y ago
      > Great. Let's legalize selling yourself into slavery while we're at it. This is a non-sequitur. A slave, does not have autonomy. Nothing in the parent comment supports slavery. You're trying to draw a false equivalence between consensual sex work and slavery.
      • slibhb 5y ago
        The parent comment wrote: > [it's] support for any person to have autonomy of their body in whichever way they see fit, including making a living by selling access to it to other people There's simply no way you can claim that doesn't include selling yourself into slavery. Not a false equivalence and an extremely common practice around most of the world until recently. Usually you were paid after your term of slavery terminated. I understand why you're shocked. You just realized that you support slavery. The good thing is that you can change your mind and come around to not supporting the exchange of human bodies for money.
        • mariusor 5y ago
          > You just realized that you support slavery I think you're arguing in very bad faith here. I do not condone slavery, but yes, I condone the right of people to sell themselves into slavery. I'm not sure why you would perceive these two things as not* different, but nuance is very important when thinking about stuff. Let me ask again: are you sure you're not being blinded by your biases? edit: actually making sense this time.
          • slibhb 5y ago
            How on earth am I arguing in bad faith? You just admitted that you support legalizing slavery! Okay, fair enough, you're not encouraging people to become slaves. And it would involve voluntary sale of oneself into slavery. But I was fairly close to the mark. Also, questions have to be asked: if a man is poor, is he really voluntarily selling himself into slavery? > Let me ask again: are you sure you're not being blinded by your biases? Perhaps it is "bias" that is keeping me from supporting the legalization of slavery. Or perhaps it's something else. I'm going with something else.