Should prostitution be legal?

[sneakypete]

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Sneaky, a respectful demurral.

@Absalom

Not a problem here. You have as much right to your opinion as anyone else,including me.

The precept that the Family Unit anchors civilization is not derived from any Religion;
rather it's derived from the Natural Law, whose concepts existed the first day of Man.

I am in total agreement with that,but don't let the thumpers hear you say that.

[Oceander]

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Sneaky, a respectful demurral.
The precept that the Family Unit anchors civilization is not derived from any Religion;
rather it's derived from the Natural Law, whose concepts existed the first day of Man.

@sneakypete

Don’t worry, it’s just the tyranny of magical mystical natural law, not something as tawdry as a theocracy. 

[TomSea]

@sneakypete

Don’t worry, it’s just the tyranny of magical mystical natural law, not something as tawdry as a theocracy.

Strange saying that on Thanksgiving; but I do believe North Korea and Red China would empathize with one's words.

[Oceander]

Strange saying that on Thanksgiving; but I do believe North Korea and Red China would empathize with one's words.

Ahhh, so Thanksgiving is about celebrating theocracy?

[goodwithagun]

Firearms are well regulated by both states and fed gov, yet people still kill with them. Why? Not because of the gun, but because they are crazy. Those same people that would take my guns away “for the children” but let crazy people roam the streets would be in charge of regulating prostitution. I’m not saying I’m for or against legalizing prostitution, I just know that I’m against it if it comes to government being in control of it. Prostitution control will work as well as gun control.

Edited to add: People don’t traffic humans because they can’t get a piece, they traffic humans because they’re crazy.

[Absalom]

@sneakypete

Don’t worry, it’s just the tyranny of magical mystical natural law, not something as tawdry as a theocracy.

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The Natural Law asserts that certain obligations and rights of Man are inherent
by his nature and can be understood through the application of logic and reason.
The Wise Ancients from Sargon, to Hammurabi, onto the Greeks understood this.
Plato, in his majestic "The Republic" defined the Soul of Man, four hundred years
before Christ, and that descriptive lies at the core of Roman Catholic Theology.
Try getting informed and real once in a while.


 

[musiclady]

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The Natural Law asserts that certain obligations and rights of Man are inherent
by his nature and can be understood through the application of logic and reason.
The Wise Ancients from Sargon, to Hammurabi, onto the Greeks understood this.
Plato, in his majestic "The Republic" defined the Soul of Man, four hundred years
before Christ, and that descriptive lies at the core of Roman Catholic Theology.
Try getting informed and real once in a while.

Sometimes one must rely on abject ignorance to maintain one’s distorted view that all calls for morality come from fundamentalist rubes screaming for theocracy.

What’s most remarkable to me is that those who abhor all people of faith are self hating enough to believe that people like themselves, devoid of faith, cannot believe in a moral society.

I guess they don’t realize how much their derision makes themselves look valueless..... and honestly, quite stupid.

[TomSea]

Ahhh, so Thanksgiving is about celebrating theocracy?

No, we have freedom of religion, freedom of speech here.  I know of no Christian theocracies in the world, but thank goodness, we know we won't hear criticism of the numerous Islamic theocracies in the world.

[TomSea]

Can you imagine in this day and age and if someone like Obama was president, there'd be a lot about gay and transgender prostitutes and allegedly no to child prostitutes, man, what a lot of regulation there would be.

[sneakypete]

Sometimes one must rely on abject ignorance to maintain one’s distorted view that all calls for morality come from fundamentalist rubes screaming for theocracy.

 

And sometimes we must recognize that basic truth. If the cowbell fits..........

[Oceander]

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The Natural Law asserts that certain obligations and rights of Man are inherent
by his nature and can be understood through the application of logic and reason.
The Wise Ancients from Sargon, to Hammurabi, onto the Greeks understood this.
Plato, in his majestic "The Republic" defined the Soul of Man, four hundred years
before Christ, and that descriptive lies at the core of Roman Catholic Theology.
Try getting informed and real once in a while.


 

Have you actually read Plato’s The Republic?

[Absalom]

Have you actually read Plato’s The Republic?

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Indeed, several times including Greek!!!

[GtHawk]

Marijuana use among teens actually dropped slightly in states that have legalized. It also created a ton of tax revenue.

I find the supposed drop in use among minors to be highly questionable, because we all know minor always, like democrats tell the truth. But going back to the salient point, legalizing marijuana did nothing to reduce the illegal growing and sales, or maybe you have an explanation for all of the illegal farming operations in homes and state and national forest land along with the continued importation of pot to California from mejico?

[Dexter]

maybe you have an explanation for all of the illegal farming operations in homes and state and national forest land along with the continued importation of pot to California from mejico?[/size]

It's still illegal in most states so there is plenty of money to make off of illegal sales. The idea that illegal sales wouldn't go down when a legal option exists seems impossible to me. I never said the black market would go away entirely. It's about liberty and the mitigation of the black market. There are still people that sell booze illegally, but the situation certainly isn't as bad as it was during prohibition.

[musiclady]

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Indeed, several times including Greek!!!

 

[GtHawk]

It's still illegal in most states so there is plenty of money to make off of illegal sales. The idea that illegal sales wouldn't go down when a legal option exists seems impossible to me. I never said the black market would go away entirely. It's about liberty and the mitigation of the black market. There are still people that sell booze illegally, but the situation certainly isn't as bad as it was during prohibition.

Odd isn't it that one only hears about busts of marijuana coming into California but not out? Odd too, how your statements are always backed up by qualifiers after the fact, legalizing marijuana in California had not one iota to with liberty or mitigation of the black market, it was first and foremost about revenue thru taxation. If you  believe the democrats have any other purpose in life, like altruism, you are sadly mistaken because they live for taking our hard earned cash and control of our lives.

[Hoodat]

It's still illegal in most states so there is plenty of money to make off of illegal sales.

Liquor is available in all 50 States, yet I can still buy moonshine in Virginia.

The bigger question is what gives States the power to decide for themselves whether prostitution should be legal or not.  It's all about control of women's bodies, right? What allows States to pass laws banning prostitution?

[Dexter]

Liquor is available in all 50 States, yet I can still buy moonshine in Virginia.

The illegal booze business took a bit of a hit after prohibition ended, no?

[roamer_1]

The illegal booze business took a bit of a hit after prohibition ended, no?

Not here.