If I want to sell a kidney or commit suicide what business is it of yours?
It is the business of society to not allow the exploitation of people for their bodily organs.
Keeping it illegal prevents this in larger measure than if it were legal.
Adultery is between me and my wife.
Lol, no it isnt or it wouldnt be adultery.
Well I guess you got me there but my point is that if I cheat it is a violation of my commitment to her. It isn't technically illegal anyway now so not sure what the discussion is anymore.
What gives you the right to tell me what my business is? The crime and property degredation that comes with areas that have high prositution are good enough excuses why I have a right to demand my congresscritters keep that shit illegal.
I have the right to choose not to enter into a contract with you. This means that my business is not your business if I say it's not unless I infringe upon your rights.
Basically this comes down to a zoning issue. These establishements need not be seedy. Heidi Fleiss wasn't living in the ghetto. The fact that prostitution is illegal is the main reason it brings down property values. Legalizing drugs would actually lessen the attraction to this line of work because now it is just an easy way to make money under the table to buy crack. Legalizing coke would eliminate the need for crack since crack was invented to maximize the high from coke since it is expensive. Pimps actually use drugs as recruiting tools and since they are the only source they can get girls to do what they want. Legalizing drugs lessens this power as well. Basically this is a local issue and should have no federal involvement.
The bestiality and pedophilia arguments are just ridiculous.
People said the same thing about arguments regarding homosexual marriage twenty years ago.
Santorum? is that you? You are comparing two consenting adults entering into a committed relationship to having sex with animals and kids both of which cannot consent which would be by definition rape. It's apples and oranges.
No one is suggesting that the law allow innocents be harmed regardless of whether they think they want to or not. There should be an established age of consent and if you violate that you should face the consequences. The key phrase to remember is "Consenting Adults".
Why are our standards today sacrosanct? Throughout history most young adults that have gone through puberty and were capable of bearing children were allowed to marry and have children.
What is so magically different about 17 as opposed to 18 that makes sex wiith the first statutory rape but the latter is OK?
I am glad we have laws keeping older adults from pursuing young teens, but your logic is a tautology of arbitrary standards.