Moderns always bungle
28 08 11 - 10:09
From the news of the vapid:
By treating accused prostitutes as victims, services such as the county's Community Service Programs and the Salvation Army can be used. These non-enforcement services often play key roles in the task force as they try to help the victims start new lives.
"I think what I'm struck most by is the similarity between the stories," said Heidi Thi, the supervisor of the human trafficking program at CSP.
"I could have somebody who was sold as a child in China and brought here to Orange County to work as a slave in somebody's house, or I could be talking to a domestic minor who's been trafficked for sex who was from Northern California and was down here in Orange County - and it's striking how similar those stories can be, that there was an abusive or neglectful home, or that there was a dream they had that life could be better. And somebody told them, "Yes, life can be better, come with me and I will show you how I can make life better for you." And trusting that person, they went and found themselves in a horrible situation." - The CNN Freedom Project
Ah, yes. "Freedom" -- which means, in other words, no consequences.
As a result, we create a wishy-washy values system in our society where it's OK to be a whore if you have someone to blame.
This encourages tolerance of whoring, even if we now jihad-crusade against the pimps.
More sensible to just keep all of it really illegal, so everyone in society closes ranks against it.
That won't occur to these nitwits however.
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The victimization is directly related to it's being illegal. Kel (Email ) - 28-08-’11 13:56
"As a result, we create a wishy-washy values system in our society where it's OK to be a whore if you have someone to blame."
Look, if you have "somebody to blame" in a strong enough sense that it tends to mitigate somebody's moral responsibility for something, then sorry pal, but being a prostitute is in some sense "ok" in that sort of case if by "not ok" you mean to imply that prostitutes in these sorts of cases ought to be treated as fully morally accountable for their lifestyle. Need I point out that denying the latter does not amount to condoning prostitution as a phenomenon, or are you unable to comprehend basic distinctions?
Human trafficking is real, coerced prostitution is real, and underage prostitution is real. Are you assuming that these things are either non-existent or so rare as to be virtually irrelevant to how the law should approach the issue of prostitution? Moreover, are you assuming that these factors should *not* be treated as relevant to how we ascribe moral responsibility in these kinds of cases?
"This encourages tolerance of whoring, even if we now jihad-crusade against the pimps."
Does it? Do you have some evidence to back that up or what? Moreover, does it even matter what you've decided is the case from your armchair in this regard? Shouldn't you primarily be worried about the actual effect on the prostitution trade that these sorts of policies would have? If these policies have the intended effect (to make the prostitution trade unprofitable while providing the women involved with better options, thereby presumably reducing the incidence of prostitution relative to the status quo, one would hope), then doesn't that render your point about "encouraging tolerance of whoring" essentially moot? You have some actual empirical evidence concerning these policies' overall effect on the prostitution trade, right? Right? Not Dave - 28-08-’11 17:59
NATURAL. FUCKING. SELECTION. fuck you dave even though you're made of straw - 28-08-’11 19:11