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For the sake of conversation, let's say adultery is illegal. Should we lock up adulterers?Regard your half comment, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
And yes adultery should be illegal.
For the sake of conversation, let's say adultery is illegal. Should we lock up adulterers?
Because it's immoral, and if it were legal it would be solicited publicly.
Whose standard of morality should we be using? Christian? Jewish? Muslim? Wiccan? And most importantly why?
There are common standards of morality that even non-religious people would agree on, wouldnt you say?Whose standard of morality should we be using? Christian? Jewish? Muslim? Wiccan? And most importantly why?
There are common standards of morality that even non-religious people would agree on, wouldnt you say?
Christian. Or consider natural law in itself.
There are common standards of morality that even non-religious people would agree on, wouldnt you say?
theres LOTS that people won't agree with but start with the basics. Morality is NOT merely a religious construct, right?Who one has sex with (assumption is consenting adults) isn't one of them though.
theres LOTS that people won't agree with but start with the basics. Morality is NOT merely a religious construct, right?
Apart and asside from the topic of prostitution, adultery should be a feloney when the couple has children.For the sake of conversation, let's say adultery is illegal. Should we lock up adulterers?
It enables sex-slave trafficking by drasticaly expanding the market's demand for sex far beyond the market's supply of volintary workers. This void is filled by criminal elements who bring in kidnapped women and underage girls from other countries. So much revenue is created that local authorities are paid off to look the other way, which means little no enforcement of any policy you might write to counteract it.Can you expand on that? Why shouldn't it be legalized?
I completely understand. The point stands that morals are not something that are solely held in the realm of religion (as was being implied) and that society, religious and non religious people, can agree to some form of societal standard and norm. There are many non-religious people that might hold the belief that premarital sex isnt necessarily healthy.Morality is subjective though. Just look at what constitutes murder for example across different cultures. We consider it murder to kill someone for an "honor killing", however, other cultures consider that morally justified and some do not consider such things to be murder. Our culture considers it justified to kill someone who is trying to break into your home, other cultures outlaw such violence. Castle doctrines do not exist everywhere, even in the US, which means that there are different views in the US as to what kinds of homicides are actually murders or justified.
The same thing may be true for stealing as well. While most people consider it wrong to take something that isn't yours, there is easily a difference in view in what people may or do own. Someone who viewed water and land as belonging to everyone, and that no one should be able to own it, would not view taking water or utilizing land or the resources on someone "claimed" land as stealing, while many others would, including having laws against these things.
I completely understand. The point stands that morals are not something that are solely held in the realm of religion (as was being implied) and that society, religious and non religious people, can agree to some form of societal standard and norm. There are many non-religious people that might hold the belief that premarital sex isnt necessarily healthy.
In this conversation there are some that are for and against legalized prostitution. It doesnt appear to be solely divided down the lines of a religion prescribed morality. Some of that are for legalization actually have a religious foundation.
It's an appeal to emotionalism that shouldn't be part of the issue.
You know, I can't think of a single career that I think should be legal, that I wouldn't have a problem with my daughter pursuing. If I wouldn't want my daughter doing it for a living, I don't think anyone else's daughter should have to do it for a living, either.
So that is putting prostitution in the same boat as drug addicts and I just wonder if this really benefits everyone in promoting something such as drug addiction or prostitution.QUOTE=Lursa;1063614079izi] IMO if there were more good parents there would be less prostitutes and drug addicts anyway.
You know, I can't think of a single career that I think should be legal, that I wouldn't have a problem with my daughter pursuing. If I wouldn't want my daughter doing it for a living, I don't think anyone else's daughter should have to do it for a living, either.
Early on in this thread I was debating a little with Lursa who is supportive of legalization and she finally stated: So that is putting prostitution in the same boat as drug addicts and I just wonder if this really benefits everyone in promoting something such as drug addiction or prostitution.
There is an automatic rebuttal here in trying to compare other less glamorous jobs such as a porta potty truck but they are all apples to oranges. The porta potty business customer is not ashamed to tell his wife he had the them service him.
Should prostitution be legalized?
No one should have to do anything. It should be choice. No one is suggesting making prostitution mandatory.
Alright, let me put it this way. Twenty-two year old divorced mother of two. She needs financial assistance from the government to feed her children, but the financial assistance is conditional on looking for jobs and taking any legal jobs that they are qualified for. If the only work she can find is prostitution, should she be denied assistance unless she is willing to work as a prostitute?
She could probably work as a dancer at a gentleman's club, which is currently legal, yet also looked down upon by society and probably not what we would want for our daughters.
I would consider prostitution more respectable, but that's just me. Engaging in literal sex is better than the creepiness of so-called "gentleman's clubs".
She could probably work as a dancer at a gentleman's club, which is currently legal, yet also looked down upon by society and probably not what we would want for our daughters.
Alright, let me put it this way. Twenty-two year old divorced mother of two. She needs financial assistance from the government to feed her children, but the financial assistance is conditional on looking for jobs and taking any legal jobs that they are qualified for. If the only work she can find is prostitution, should she be denied assistance unless she is willing to work as a prostitute?
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