Posted on 01/27/2014 5:54:47 AM PST by xsmommy
Thank you!
I look at it pragmatically. There are “victims,” but prohibition is not the solution.
And, yes, I would rather have tax money go into the treasury legally than have money go into the pockets of cops, judges, prosecutors and politicians illicitly.
Yes, I don’t disagree with either one of you on age-appropriate messaging and punishment.
Simply put, it is a public health issue.
Not a criminal one.
So what is next prostitution? Other drugs? No age limit on marriage? Where do you draw the line?
You are wrong - it currently is a criminal issue. you want to make it NOT be a criminal issue but it is
Of course you do, but you’re bifurcating the issue.
On the one hand, you’re correct. That understanding needs to come from the home.
OTOH, it’s simply a public health issue, not one of criminal justice, until actual crimes (dui) occur.
Much like you, i know with absolute certainty, that the boys, would never venture down that road.
But, that isn’t something they got from health class, nor fear of consequence. Just a forthright understanding....
I will say, it’s pretty cool to have a spirited discussion here...it’s been a while.
Prostitution should have been legal ages ago....especially when AIDS popped up.
Please, it’s so frickin rampant, you can pick up any paper, or internet device
And be into some flesh in 30 minutes.
Yes, lets keep licensing and doctors out of it.
Philosophically.
Logically.
If you want to argue current law as logic...
Defend Obamacare.
I’ll wait.
(Sound of foot tapping)
I don’t know if my first husband and I did it right or not, but we relied on our own upbringing and experiences, took her to Mass and encouraged her to be involved in church-sponsored youth activities-and used very little of my education and work experience in social work. Some people said we were too permissive just the same, because we gave her credit for being sensible. We were always her parents, never her friends and we made the rules, period. I guess I’d say we did the best we could with what we had.
The cub only really did something beyond the pale twice, and neither incident included legal or illicit drugs, or alcohol-once she almost eloped with a boy, and once she and a neighbor’s daughter gave a boy an inappropriate-but well deserved beatdown...
I do not want to offend anyone in this discussion, but at the risk of giving in to my natural rebellious nature-what the hell is a “public health issue” anyway? The only issue I can see is that IDs should be checked for purchase of sexual services-no minors allowed, just like anything else that requires the reasoning and acceptance of responsibility of an adult. My “health” or yours or anyone else’s is not the concern of any government...
I also believe if we can enlist in the military and fight for our freedom at 18, then we are an adult at 18, too. None of this is new-my core beliefs haven’t changed since I was in my teens-I’ve just gotten a more mature outlook-and I will now don my flameproof skivvies...
So you feel selling your body should be legal and accepted. Would you like your daughter to be a prostitute? If not, why if it is such a wide spread and acceptable practice?
In terms of public health issue...
With addiction, we use specious arguments, like burglary, or dui to justify the intervention of the State into private behavior..
Tobacco, and Alcohol kill more by orders of magnitude. Yet, we do not criminalize behavior, except where appropriate. Until recently anyway.
While addiction, is a sad affair, it is not one that needs criminalization, nor for that matter is predilection.......hence..people should be left alone, and their health issues, should remain health issues.
This is a lets have a beer topic, far too long for a keyboard...lol..this is a /rant topic for me.
Please don’t bring up Mark McGuire...lol
My statement was in response to your comment that pot wasn't illegal. It is, currently.
Would I like that...c’mon..you’re better than that... Thats obvious.
Look, i fully understand, that this is a very gender specific thing.I truly sympathize. Women, do not want that club out of the bag, because it negates a weapon, in the power relationship, no matter the willingness, or voraciousness of the appetite at home.
I get that.
Talk to all those women, from the early days of aids, that played that game and lost.
And the “sound of foot tapping” crap is so girly hobbes - really.
Illegal drugs can kill you with a low dose, another individual could take twice that and not die. First time you take it it can kill, or the tenth time you take the same dosage it can kill. You do not have to take more of it to get a different end.
Lmao. Draw the line. You just made me throw Aerosmith on.....
You’re right. We were discussing the moral and philosophical differences between just and unjust law...
Maybe my previous post was unclear. I Apologize.
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