 Reference > Is Europe Ready for 'Whore Power'?Description :: Alistair McKay, Nerve.com, January 6, 2006
The title is awful, but the text serves as a primer for some of the reactions you'll find around the debate on decriminalizing / legalizing / regulating prostitution. (Not all of the arguments are good, of course, but you should see them for yourself.) Continued at top
Owned by Unordained - Created on 01/06/2006 - Never edited  05/18/06 :: Folder :: Jobs & (un)employment11/01/05 :: Folder :: Freedom & Responsibility11/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice06/22/05 :: Folder :: Sex 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.  11/06/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Vindication of Moral Liberty01/08/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: UK report upcoming on psychosis effects of cannabis (pot)  03/30/09 :: Article :: The Abortion Debate Is Stupid. :: It seriously is.12/15/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Criminalizing Motherhood12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided10/09/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians10/03/05 :: Quote :: Henry KissingerWe must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. 10/03/05 :: Quote :: John MiltonHere the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and
punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeOne of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. 03/13/11 :: Reference :: (link) :: See? What did I tell you about us doing this to ourselves?08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan responds to responses on lolicon09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court JusticeThe very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submi [...] 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. 08/19/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Cops Against the Drug War08/13/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Queer 'Aye' for Marriage08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan opines on lolicon08/09/06 :: Article :: The Decameron :: Putting the Devil in Hell. Is that what they call it these days?07/31/08 :: Quote :: HL MenckenThe trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. 07/08/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The morality police 06/29/04 :: Article :: Freedom and Authority :: Shedding light on America's political system05/12/06 :: Quote :: Patrick HenryThe Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests. 04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 03/13/11 :: Message :: Marriage and Equal Rights03/02/04 :: Article :: Anti-discrimination and the Church :: Should you be worried about gay marriage because your church doesn't want to officiate such things?02/12/04 :: Article :: Boobygate :: New and improved! Now easier to skim and ignore!! 08/12/06 :: Article :: Lolicon lovers: a threat to society? a threat to anime? :: This whole debate puts the LOL in loli.09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeThere's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. 09/04/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Deadly Franchise08/09/06 :: Quote :: Giovanni BoccaccioAlibech turns hermit, and a monk, Rustico, teaches her to put the Devil in Hell. Afterwards she is brought home, and married to Neerbale.
Dioneus listened attentively to the Queen’s discourse, and when she had done and he knew that only he remained to complete the day’s entertainment, without trifling away the time or awaiting a command from the Queen, thus he began.
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