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"This is wrong not just because many prostitutes are forced into it and do not have equal power," Bullshit. Have you talked to any working girls? "Prostitution is treating something that is sacred as a commodity to be bought and sold" Sex is sacred? Let's have more of it then. "with the sale of sex goes the respect that women deserve because men, and women themselves, come to see them as only "sex objects" rather than as people" Oh dear Jacob, what dribble. You'll find there are many prostitutes who have higher self esteem than many simply promiscuous men and women, and monogomous men and women. Not that I would generalise, but to say that women lose respect because they do something which you think is blasphemous is absurd unless they belong to your Church. "Look at the behaviour of young women today, committing unspeakable acts because they have lost so much self-respect due to the prevalence of "Raunch Culture"." Eating babies? Animal sacrifice? You should elaborate. I'll bet you my left bollock it happened in Victorian times too. You are suffering the same illusion that William Blake did (or illustrated) in The Echoing Green. Sport no more seen in todays society? Hardly. "Your Libertarian theology is a recipe for social decay and, ultimately, personal decay." Strawman was mocking a police effort to make women more aware of the dangers of being around drunken people and drinking at the same time. WHich would appear inherintly risky. One of those risks identified was rape. You are saying that libertarianism, which, by the way, means absolute personal sovereignty and the right to self defence,(which would mean that sexual assault is a serious crime, and people have a right to use a fair amount of force to prevent it) encourages sexual assault, because we allow people to be sexually liberated - tell that to the women who have been opressed in the Mid East and South Asia, in the name of religion (although religion ahs little to do with it). "undermines self-esteem" How Jacob, does prostitution lower self esteem if you do not make it a social more? "Libertarian with an insufficiently sophisticated intellectual framework to make useful comments about society." I guess those philosophers, economists, lawyers, political scientists and historians etc have got it all wrong...not because they allow you to practice your religion, but rather, they do not want a theocracy. Maybe you can say where those philosophers, economists, lawyers, political scientists and historians are wrong in their intellectual framework, which would mean you would drop any theological basis for your insipid claims.
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