What you really mean there is "given our culture's increasing lack of my moral underpinnings. "
The highest murder rate our country ever had was in the 1800s. The highest rate of corporate corruption? late 19th century early 20th. Probably the same is true for political corruption.
If people would stop inventing things to be illegal because they don't like them (Drugs, and as ER points out above, prostitution), we would probably have the most harmonious and peaceful civilization we have ever had.
Looking at western civilization with values inured in the past (I would say the bronze age) yields a view of contemporary times that of course reeks of decay. But you have to buy the argument that yesterdays morality was somehow better. I disagree. The world of the past was a dark violent repressive place and we should no more cling to the moral system that organized it that way than we should cling to the steam engine and pre-scientific medicine.
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re: given our culture's increasing lack of moral underpinnings.
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- Prostitution should be legalized.
- Prostitution has always been legal.
- An interesting thread...
- It is legal in nevada.
- re: Prostitution should be legalized. - Great, legalize it and that'll be another profession for young women to work up to -NOT-. (n/t)
- Wouldn't solve much imo
- If it were legal...
- No, it should not. ;-)
- Well it is kinda
- Rumor has it you're human, too.
- That does not make any sense Lee.
- its not the snot nosed pimply faced boy that is getting all the action.
- Just making a point.
- But how do you feel on legalizing prostitution?? (n/t)
- Just another example of lowering the bar.
- But how do you feel on legalizing prostitution?? (n/t)
- "what do you call the snot nosed pimply faced little pecker head "
- From my third link