Nilgiri
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.you know how much a high level escort can earn in an evening? Probably more than my monthly wage.
Take a look at this...
You know how much a white collar criminal can earn in an evening? Probably way more than you will make in your lifetime. Let's legalise white collar crime too....i.e moral standard should simply be how much can be earned in an evening.
This is the quality of your argument now. Not to mention the "if" of 2000 hours work time AND the fact what prostitutes actually end up making and having to go through....especially in developing world (where you are suggesting pure legalisation no matter who gets caught into it).
You rely on leftard farticles, I actually have talked to them. It shows.
Then the rest of your post is stuff like "why" was "Sati" "legal". You don't even know a smidgen on the subject and it will take too much time and effort to bring you up to speed on it, and you will just hypocritically wave it away anyway. So not worth the conversation.
I have already voiced my opinion against forced and underage prostitution.
You seem to have no idea what forced prostitution actually is (i.e how to actually determine if its forced in the real world)....esp in a place like Bangladesh. Again you have never talked to one, the average experience of a hooker in the West even after she been through the system and seen it all, yet you live in a bubble spouting your Trotsky crap.
Yep...people should be informed with the risks that comes with prostitution....although I feel people generally knows this. That's why I say make it legal...so it is easy to find and inspect...stop forced prostitution...and make prostitutes go through medical checkups frequently....or make it a law that a brothels must ensure that its workers do medical check up in every three or six months.
So you admit that society SHOULD step in after all with LAWS whether a personal individual likes them or not?
"Make prostitutes go through medical checkups"....who are YOU or SOCIETY to tell them that if they don't want to?
You have already lost the argument...is was the issue of you saying "society has NO RIGHT to impose on individuals"....that made me enter this waste of a conversation with you in the first place. You climbed down to say well it should impose when its murder/life...and now its even medical checkups and formalisation of brothels or whatever. So there you go you are just arguing the extent, not what you initially said in an absolute. Thus you defeated your own argument.
Complete freedom as long as you are not harming others...
Kill yourself...fine.
Kill someone else......not.
Again who are you...and who are society to draw the line at "not harming others" and imposing on the free will of another?...when earlier you said "moral standards" should NEVER be imposed on another. Do you understand the meaning of NEVER....or don't you?
I have said it before...I am not a leftist.....better word for me would be nihilist or maybe bit of a solipsist as well.
LOL you clearly are an extreme leftist. You can deny that you are, just like you are free to deny you are an extremely ignorant hypocrite too. You would score somewhere to the left of Trotsky on a standard political test...guaranteed. Again feel free to check yourself.
Same thing here.....more people are murdered by non druggies......ban vehicles? It kills more people than drugs(probably)..There should be punishment(I'd say capital punishment) for murderers...but vanning vehicles, banning drugs isn't the way to go.
The prevalence of the negative externality when it comes to murder and other serious tort on people surrounding druggies is clearly studied and clearly known....and it is significantly higher than the mainstream population. Go look up the numbers yourself if you want to.
You have already climbed down to extent-clause from your absolute freedom earlier...yet you won't apply here quite hypocritically.
So, what kind pf law do you propose to sop single parenthood? Do you stop people from their right to get divorced? Just let it be....you made a wrong choice choosing a bad life partner so you are stuck in this loop till you or your partner die? You say it is harmful to society...but in the end it is harmful to those individuals who give birth without marrying or divorce after giving birth, isn't it? Leave them be. Because among them you will find some who probably did better by separating like left an abusive partner then raised a child well. So, some(in the minority) does well by separating...do you have the right of seperation take away from them? And you don't know who will do better after separating and who won't. So, you have to give this right to everyone....and have them accountable to their choices. Tell me, do you insist that people stay together even if they are unhappy? Even though they might not find happiness otherwise.
Waste of time talking about this. The intent was to show the decline in socioeconomics of a community the further leftard/groupthink it goes. The policy prescriptions are many...again going to take far too much time to try attempt discuss with one staunch deluded Trotskyist.
Again.....how do you know whoich children is learning great life lessons? This is like a lottery......do you think the children of sweepers, housemaid are learning great life lessons running around slums? Can you be sure that children of successful people are learning great life lessons? Is the child of a alcoholic abusive a$$hole learning great life lessons even though the kid could be living in a mansion? Children can't chose their parents..they have to live with it.
The data is all out there if you look for it. I am talking about the macro-extent of the negative externality torts, not absolute 0 or 100% correlation to every individual you can hypothetically imagine/cherry pick.
Again waste of time continuing here.
Is it a baby, before birth?
Yes. Its a human lifeform with sentience.
Note to self:... **** I should just quote everything as parts to start with in reply and answer each one instead of going back and forth...srry that really annoyed me I had to write that. Thankfully I figured to do this now.
So, are you willing to allow prostitution to those who are informed? Logic should apply both way, shouldn't it? And yes people should be informed about the risks....maybe include them in school text books....I mean sex education is already there in some places...I'm not sure what and how much is covered there....but if it isn't there...maybe then include it...a chapter on risks of prostitution.
Yes I do not believe in absolute authoritarianism. But there should be strong intervention to the largest extent by society...as deemed by the clear negative externality of the activity on the overall scale.
There is no point arguing on this....I could give you hundreds of examples how a lot of things which was considered morally bad....later got accepted by people. Or vice versa. But you'll still believe what you want to believe. Plato, Aristotle were for that time...many of their concepts won't work today.
Obviously you haven't read Plato or Aristotle....yet you live in the western civilisation that is the fruit of their debate. Seems about right for a leftie.
Tell me what is the key difference in philosophical approach of Plato and Aristotle in your own words. Prove me wrong if not.
Don't evade it....According to you Prostitution is illegal...and if this point is very important to you, then I guess you would prefer Afghanistan over Canada? Homosexuality and maybe being topless is also legal in Canada...but illegal in Afghanistan..
Don't evade a strawman? Wait we are supposed to just leave every society we find imperfections/faults in?...instead of challenging those, making a case, finding people who think like you and don't think like you and try to change things for the better as you perceive it?
Why don't YOU leave Sweden since they have banned the hardcore drugs (like Cocaine and Heroin) that you clearly have stated should be totally legal on demand? Do you even listen to yourself/apply to yourself before you propose an "argument"?
Like I said the leftards in the US all made a big hue and cry that they would leave if Trump won.....and so far....zilch. This is you guys in one simple nutshell....the only consistency you seem to have is lack of consistency.
No....I'd say around 5-6 months of pregnancy....when the fetus is capable of living outside womb....it is dangerous to perform abortion too at that stage......going back to abortion...it is legal at all stages in Canada(just checked wiki). Dude you need to leave that vile immoral country fast.
Read above (for the Canada jibe). Please try not to repeat yourself in the interest of time in the next conversation we may or may not have somewhere else (because I certainly will not be replying anymore here).
And again you seem to pose "5 - 6" months as some magic marker point....erm why not 4.9 months? Why is capability of living outside a womb a moral standard on sentience/nervous system (i.e ability to feel pain, engage in REM sleep and a myriad of other things) which happen at way different stages of development?
Should we cut off all ventilator support for people that need it (and have full or limited brain function, response, cognition, sentience) just because they would otherwise not be viable?
Educate me. Why people(a few of them) want abortion? What do you suggest them to do if they are pregnant but don't want the child? Ban prostitution? Hoes gotta eat too. And some sexually frustrated people needs to find a release too. What do you propose? What should those who want sex but don't want kids and marriage do? Should they go hang themselves?
Again people will find a way regardless. So the best thing to do is prevent as much from happening with solid moral framework and upbringing.....rather than just say legalise everything that's morally wrong + has massive negative externalities...in full individualism argument. I am for a balanced approach, neither absolute extreme is viable.
Prevent neglect...I am not sure how you do it...but it is harmful and somehow needs to be done. Childhood neglect can cause serious damage to a child.....by neglect I don't necessarily mean abuse...but rather considering them as burden....Other than that I am fine with their decision to give up their child for adoption or have an early abortion.
Its definitely lot better from moral standpoint than murdering the baby in the womb. If it was a "mistake", society should have a good system to preserve the life and nurture it by adoption etc.
I have done weed myself.
OK, you probably killed a fair number of brain cells. Good for you.
Depends on the standards....If you force burqa on everyone its bad......clothing should be about choice...legalize nudity...I don't think you'll see many roaming around naked though.
It's not about the "many" or "not many" that elect for full nudity in public. Its the inherent right of the public to enforce public standards. The whole concept does not extend to just nudity either.
Again its does the public/society have the right to impose conventions on the individual or doesn't it? Even if you think not, its simply dissonant from reality, there will ALWAYS be convention imposed on the rest....it is how humans organise. We band together in groups in the first place because of the need to procreate and protect. We are not stray atoms in the cosmic wind.....we prefer to be stellar systems....its why we even exist in the first place....why we define light and dark and good and evil....and why we form say a godhead/absolute moral authority out of it to simplify (and admit we do not know the full purpose of this...but benefit from the order over entropy). @Desert Fox @Psychic
Double standards is the last thing I want to have....I have been pretty consistent with my views, I think....
I think not. Refer to below statement:
I am not completely mindful of the things I wrote before.....if I stated that society can't interfere anywhere, no matter what or something that sort....that probably came out in a moment of heat or something.
OK...hey its a climbdown, I'll take it. But I will have to depart from this thread now unless something new comes up. Please don't bother replying to this one....we are just going in circles. A Lion and Sheep (and you can be whichever one, the point is the level of contrast) do not make for much agreement.
Obviously it's the parents paying...but still...its going to have an impact on him till he die.....considering the fact that if he studies medicine he'll end up a doc and if he studies engineering he'll end up as an engineer.....and earn his livelihood accordingly.
Again if he is fully cognisant of the impact for full life, he has the individual right to not take his parents funds and make his own way (there is such a thing as student bank loan you know). Why is the individualism suddenly absent from your argument when its suits you?
Oh....you touched nihilism too....Nihilism makes sense when you think clearly...and not in the conventional way you have been taught to think...
Yeah whatever. Nietzsche (as much as I disagree with him on a LOT)...has a good analysis of Nihilism w.r.t Human society and psyche, you ought to read all he was written someday....he captured and crystallized a lot of the earlier strands from other philosophers discussing the same thing. Suffice to say, its not a good thing for human society and civilisation....given the timescale contrast of developing those versus an individual lifetime.