Why not legalize prostitution?

As it stands now, you have tons of girls being forced into prostitution through rather illicit means. They are forced into heroine addictions, or beat up and such. Why do they need to be forced? My line of thinking is that the only thing stopping half those 'forced prostitutes' is the fact that it's illegal. It's like one of my friends. He'd be perfectly willing to do certain drugs if it weren't for the fact that they were illegal. So if you legalize prostitution, pimps wouldn't need to force them to do it, and in turn you'd have alot less poorly treated prostitutes. That seems like a benefit of legalized prostitution.

Legalizing it would also mean that the women could actually make a career out of it. With it being legal, they would for sure get more customers. They would be taxed for the income I assume, but for things like applying for an apartment, or possibly getting another job and stuff, they can say 'oh I make this much a year' or something like that. I guess they'd have something to put on their resume. 'Customer Service Experience'.

Despite my moral objections, I can see a lot of positive outcomes to legalizing prostitution.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Divest

No, no.

The complete opposite. I'm saying smoking pot is more harmful.

And I've heard of plenty of deaths related to marijuana.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't saying "smoking pot is more harmful than cigarettes" the same as what sass said "smoking butts is less harmful than smoking pot"

Therefore, what you are arguing is the same as what she asked, and therefore not the complete opposite.

Anyhow...

I've always considered smoking anything to be equally dangerous. In the big picture, you're inhaling something into your lungs that they weren't meant to have put in them. Any kind of smoke is unhealthy. Campfire smoke can kill you if you breath in too much. So arguing the semantics of 'is tobacco smoke worse than marijuana' isn't gonna go anywhere.

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