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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm not the libertarian here. The article describes run-of-the-mill prostitution, except that (1) the prostitutes are in exceptionally horrid circumstances, and (2) the johns are UN peacekeepers. Since I know that club is libertarian enough to think that prostitution should generally be legal, I couldn't figure out what principle bothered him here, other than (a) the UN should be cast in a bad light. After copious posting, I discern that he thinks that prostitution is generally OK except when the prostitutes are really poor, in which case they should not be allowed to prostitute themselves for food. Since he's not willing to give the UN any more money to do anything about the lousy conditions these people find themselves in, unless and until the NEA is defunded, he apparently thinks that really poor prostitutes should have the good taste to crawl off and die, unless they can embarrass the UN some more by continuing to live.
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Are you being purposely dense? My position on prostitution is that it should be legal. If find it morally wrong (on the part of the John), however, if the woman is forced to act as a prostitute in order to avoid death or similar circumstances. A poor woman in America can get a job at McDonalds. If she chooses to forgo that job and go into prostitution instead, it should be legal and I do not have a moral problem with it.
I have already stated my positions on funding. If you want to continue to twist my position, I can't do anyting about that.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop It's obvious to me that the soldiers are guilty of inhumanity, and that the international community can and should do more to alleviate the conditions of these refugees. We all agree on the first point, but the conservatives here are usually opposed to the second point, for fearing of interfering with market forces.
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What market forces are being interferred with? Oh, you mean those interferrences caused by the tyranical governments of these countries? This is not the case of a market failure. It is the absense of true markets that are failing these countries.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop I still can't tell what this has to do with Abu Ghraib, and club hasn't been able to find any discussion of U.S. soldiers taking advantage of Iraqi prostitutes so he's sort of dropped the "double standard" point.
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I have done nothing of the sort. My point all along has been that the acts in Iraq are bad and these acts are bad, but that these acts won't get the coverage they are due because they were done under UN rather than US cover.
