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Calamity316 posted...
that is still a false equivalency

Hey, you're allowed to believe that, but if you're hitting prostitutes and not thinking about how they got there to begin with you are basically shutting your ears and closing your eyes to what is potentially a real problem. Not everyone chooses to do things because they want to, which doesn't make that they chose to do it somehow magically better if you take advantage of that. You're still taking advantage of someone in that kind of situation. End of story.

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Again, like Calamity you're mistaking that I'm arguing against legalizing it. I'm not, I'm saying that it's hard to get people to see legalized prostitution as a remedy to the damage illegal prostitution does. What I am saying is as it stands right now women in prostitution are not all there because they want to be there, and if you take advantage of that, even if they say yes, you're still taking advantage of them. The illusion of choice is not a choice.

Now with that in mind, try to convince people on the surface that more prostitution is the answer, when before it has lead to rape, slavery, addiction, and other degradation of life. Yes, legalizing prostitution potentially curbs that, I never have disputed that, I'm just saying it's one of those things that doesn't make itself apparent on the surface to some folks.


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