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Originally Posted by loquitur
Yes, we have had a few laughs over Eliot Spitzer's ridiculous behavior, but that leads to a serious question: should prostitution be illegal? I have posted elsewhere that I don't think it should be, and I reiterate that here. The short reason is that each person is sovereign over his/her body and is entitled to do with it as s/he pleases.
A longer version is from Will Wilkinson, whom I find persuasive. An excerpt from his thoughts:What do you think? |
nope...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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