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Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section
Cyrus writes "The online classified website Craigslist has removed its controversial Adult Services portion of its website. Technology blog TechCrunch was the first to report the section had been blacked out with the word 'Censored.'"
Why don't you take a moment to study a handful of societies
Why don't you take a brief hiatus from being a pompous, moralizing prick, and absorb the fact that I am far more familiar than you are with world history, and that's why I understand the futility of trying to legislate away anything that you don't like.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I think the main reason why slaves exist is because there is demand for it. And I believe there will always be.
The fact that in today's society it is "morally incorrect" to sell slaves is just a temporary (in the hundreds of years span) thing.
But even if government would be able to ban all slavery the only thing that would happen is that the service would become more expensive, and the people who provide the service would have less rights.
Just sayin'.
Humanity has a long and nasty history, and historical precedent does not necessarily suggest respectability. Leaving aside the question of whether prostitution is nice or nasty, there has long been demand for all sorts of disgusting shit, because humans are stupid and shitty and self-serving. The fact that enough people to fund a 50,000/year trafficking habit think that it would be nice to own a slave - and the fact that they are able to identify several thousand years' worth of cultural precedents for slave-keeping - does not for a minute imply that they should be permitted to do so. Or would you think it reasonable to re-establish slavery given that 50,000/year would then be better treated as a result? I think not...
Argue for legal prostitution by all means, but the "People have always done it" argument is not a convincing one.
In the prostitution labor market, there are ordinary women, underage girls, children and adults bonded in the sex trade or sex slavery, pimps and their ilk, and clients. Underage girls and bonded women (unwilling members of the sex trade) do not consent to their work.
I'm sorry. Can you save me the trouble of reading through all that wharrrgarbl, and explain, in five words or less, who is arguing for the legalization of slavery?