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TalkingDog

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3. You are creating a false analogy.

Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:53 AM

Jan 2012

There is a difference between decriminalizing and legalizing.

Building codes are in place to account for the safety of the greatest number of people.

Legalizing prostitution would find the profession held to the same standards of safety (hopefully)

If your analogy were to be equivalent, it would be the decriminalization of prostitution and the "de-legalization" of building code standards. So that neither has legally binding or actionable restrictions nor are they illegal.

I happen to think both should be legal and regulated. For the reasons stated above: Namely the safety of the greatest number of people.

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Is the slogan "consenting adults" an adequate foundation for all economic regulation? [View all] Boojatta Jan 2012 OP

This is mainly a city thing, though eridani Jan 2012 #1

I'm sure that you can think of many problematic scenarios if you try. Boojatta Jan 2012 #5

Yes, but people who live in rural areas just see distances eridani Jan 2012 #9

In the case of prostitution, a customer might be Boojatta Jan 2012 #6

But the average distance between neighbors in rural America is closer to 10 feet than 10 miles happyslug Jan 2012 #11

I'll take hookers for $50, Alex! Fuddnik Jan 2012 #2

You are creating a false analogy. TalkingDog Jan 2012 #3

My intention wasn't to create an analogy. Boojatta Jan 2012 #4

You are, of course, correct that decriminalizing prostitution ... Boojatta Jan 2012 #7

Most laws making prostitution illegal in the 1800s was to control the spread of VDs. happyslug Jan 2012 #12

Faulty assumption underlying consent is that both parties have total information about every mbperrin Jan 2012 #8

No Yo_Mama Jan 2012 #10

no more then it is an adiquate bases for good sex. Sam1 Jan 2012 #13