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Look at it from this angle: Offer your body to make money (prostitution): ~ 1 year (US, couldn't find South Korea numbers) Offer virtual items to make money:

Look at it from this angle: Offer your body to make money (prostitution): ~ 1 year (US, couldn't find South Korea numbers) Offer virtual items to make money: max 5 years Offer your body to make money BUT TAPE IT: Legal (to my knowledge) Note, i'm not commenting on the morality or rightfulness of either policies, just pointing out this (to me) interesting fact

joering2 14y ago
> Offer your body to make money: 1 year what do you mean? I thought without your body/mind, you can't do any work. So: Offer your body to make money: lifetime
- TruthElixirX 14y ago
  He was talking about prostitution.
  - joering2 14y ago
    Oh I didnt get it. Thanks. Someone had fun downvoting...
guard-of-terra 14y ago
Laws are often inconsistent. For example, there exist laws which, if read literally, would state that having consentual sex with 13-year old would be punished more severely than raping said 13-year old. There is another angle: old laws are more balanced - for worse crime there's more punishment. People could compare crimes back then. Newer laws are hysterical: the crime severity does not readily correlates with punishment severity. This is because of lobbying by various forces and because people DEMAND BLOOD on some issues which were brought [by same or other groups] in order to distract them from other issues.
- DeepDuh 14y ago
  Do we have any good sources on the claim that newer laws are less balanced? This subject should be taken very seriously. If a well founded study were to indicate this true, it would be a call to arms for heavy reforms on our democratic systems.
  - guard-of-terra 14y ago
    I do not. Would make an interesting read if somebody does.
hrktb 14y ago
>* Offer virtual items to make money: max 5 years * Depending on the way it is done, it can be like gambling. That's what is happening in Japan, where children would spent enormous amount of money to get (artificially) rare virtual items, and the government had to pass laws to restrict these kind of games. I don't know if it's better or worse than prostitution, but it can have a clear negative impact on the society for sure. http://kotaku.com/5908147/japans-youngest-self+made-billionaire-lost-700-million-today-%5Bupdate%5D http://kotaku.com/5908147/japans-youngest-self+made-billiona...

joering2 14y ago

> Offer your body to make money: 1 year what do you mean? I thought without your body/mind, you can't do any work. So: Offer your body to make money: lifetime

TruthElixirX 14y ago
He was talking about prostitution.
- joering2 14y ago
  Oh I didnt get it. Thanks. Someone had fun downvoting...

guard-of-terra 14y ago

Laws are often inconsistent. For example, there exist laws which, if read literally, would state that having consentual sex with 13-year old would be punished more severely than raping said 13-year old. There is another angle: old laws are more balanced - for worse crime there's more punishment. People could compare crimes back then. Newer laws are hysterical: the crime severity does not readily correlates with punishment severity. This is because of lobbying by various forces and because people DEMAND BLOOD on some issues which were brought [by same or other groups] in order to distract them from other issues.

DeepDuh 14y ago
Do we have any good sources on the claim that newer laws are less balanced? This subject should be taken very seriously. If a well founded study were to indicate this true, it would be a call to arms for heavy reforms on our democratic systems.
- guard-of-terra 14y ago
  I do not. Would make an interesting read if somebody does.

hrktb 14y ago

>* Offer virtual items to make money: max 5 years * Depending on the way it is done, it can be like gambling. That's what is happening in Japan, where children would spent enormous amount of money to get (artificially) rare virtual items, and the government had to pass laws to restrict these kind of games. I don't know if it's better or worse than prostitution, but it can have a clear negative impact on the society for sure. http://kotaku.com/5908147/japans-youngest-self+made-billionaire-lost-700-million-today-%5Bupdate%5D http://kotaku.com/5908147/japans-youngest-self+made-billiona...