Legalization.

[paulpablo]

Where you live right now is there anything which is illegal that you would like to be made legal or anything that is legal which you want to be made illegal?

I just want to say I'm not encouraging anyone to break the law in this thread.

Personally I would legalize prostitution and marijuana smoking.

I never saw the point to legalizing prostitution. Why spend your money for sex when so many are already giving it up for free?...and it's legal.

1 Why spend money on sex?

Some people have fetishes they don't want the wife or girlfriend to find out about, some people have been "blessed" with the ability to make money and not so "blessed" with good looks or personality and just want no strings attached sex by simply paying for it, some guys might want to do things that are just quite difficult to convince a girl to do, for example have sex with 5 girls at the same time while another 5 girls watch.

2 Not seeing the point in legalizing prostitution.

The point is that it has the possibility of being amazingly well regulated and decriminalized, at the moment street prostitution is highly associated with sexual violence, underage sex, drugs, robbery and sometimes even murder. I don't see any reason why prostitution can't be as well regulated as any other retail outlet offering services.
On top of all this take into consideration the amount of man hours spent on policing prostitution. I've seen "Cops" episodes were they would do a sting operation and get around 8 women police officers dressed as prostitutes, surrounded them with around 8 under cover officers then for a few hours they arrested men looking to pay for sex.
So that's 16 police officers being paid for around 4 or 5 hours work to catch some horny guys wanting to pay for sex.
I saw another episode were they did a sting against the prostitutes and set themselves up in a hotel, had around 7 police officers and an FBI agent there and that was all to arrest 1 prostitute and 1 guy who sent her there from an internet site.

Additionally I don't know all the statistics about women who are forced into porn or trafficked by criminal gangs, I do think legalizing prostitution will eliminate a lot of problems within that business though. The reasons why a lot of women can be taken advantage I'd guess is because if you're a prostitute you might not be taken seriously by the police, or you could be robbed and not tell the police because you can't complain if someone steals the money you obtained illegally anyway but both of these things would be dealt with if prostitution were legal and people bought the services like they would legally by any other service. I'm sure there would still be problems, but there's problems any type of system of retail, selling and buying and so on.

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Drugs, prostitution, marriage for competent consenting adults, driving without a seatbelt if you're over 18, all abortions...there's probably more haha

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Yup the right to die

I listened to an audiobook recently which had a portion which talked about how seat belts became standard things in cars and to me it does make sense to make it illegal to not wear one.

It talked about the irrationality of the human mind and how some people didn't like to wear a seat belt because it was like preempting something to happen, and also that at one point in time it was like an insult to someones driving to put a seat belt on when you were their passenger. And they do work quite well.


also someone asked me how and why I would limit people's drinking, I don't know how but the reason why would be in England an enormous amount of time and money is spent on policing drunk people and providing ambulances, hospital beds, nurses and doctors for them when they fall over, fight, choke on their own vomit and so on.