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| quote: | Originally posted by Lepanto
No, the risk of working in food or meat packing or window washer isn't nearly as dangerous to you and OTHERS as prostitution. who's FORCED into working a mine? except people who are born into mining towns and are content with with, not the same shit as being forced or sold into something because your family was mortally threatened.
If you think there's nothing wrong with husbands and wives going out fucking then congrats to you.
And morals are what builds charecter, groups and nations. and should not be taken lightly. If you say morals shouldn't be included than i guess the concept of the movie hostel is ok too  |
I disagree that those jobs are any less dangerous than responsible prostitution. Prostitutes can protect themselves with a variety of methods similar to how meat packers use gloves and breathing filters or window washers use harnesses. Likewise, customers would have an equal interest in protecting themselves from disease like those who eat meat do when they cook their products beyond a certain temperature.
Who is forced intoworking in a mine, you ask. Well, the idea of physically forcing someone aside, circumstances can leave people with no education and no ability to do anything but preform simple manual labor. To support yourself in dire times, you will accept any work, and this includes miners. The threats don't need to be spoken; if you don't work, you die. If you want to look at it on a global scale, ask child workers in African diamond mines if they want to be there. Ask them if any threats were received against them or their families, or if they were kidnapped and forced into mine work.
Obviously, I think theres a problem with spouse's cheating. And I agree that cheating numbers might experience a small increase, but I doubt they would skyrocket. I believe that people who are going to cheat on their wives/husbands are going to do so anyways, and between clubs and alcohol (not to mention illicit yet avaliable drugs) there are ample oppurtunities already. I would be willing to look at any proof you have linking infidelity to legalized prostitution.
Of course morals are important but they often can cloud a rational discussion. I think they should be set aside for this type of conversation because I find that many people's morals say things like, prostitution is bad because it promotes sex outside of marriage, or it degrades women. These thoughts cloud rational discourse because these ideas are subjective and we don't have a global human morality that we accept as law.
Finally, I don't think anyone is condoning the kidnapping and use of captives as prostitutes, even under a legalized prositution system. This heinous crime happens now and prostitution is illegal (in the United States). I think youre making a lot of generalizations and ignoring some of the more "successful" models of prostitution around the globe. Legalized prostitution doesn't mandate dangerous sex, forced intercourse, or infidelity anymore than broadcasting these actions on television does.
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