-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: SAlanEd@concentric.net, cypherpunks@toad.com Date: Thu Oct 31 06:51:05 1996 Steve Edwards writes: ... <snip>
I agree that the war on drugs is useless, and that prohibiting prostitution is even more mindless. Still, the libertarian ideal seems even worse. Think about Thailand, where sex is bought and sold openly. The AIDs infection rate has gone from near zero to 2.5% in a couple of years, and promises to devastate the whole country. Burmese kids are sold into sex slavery. Is this the future? People make choices every day, but few people make INFORMED choices, and a lot of people, believe it or not, have very little choice. They are caught between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.
1. Prostitution is (nominally) illegal in Thailand. 2. So, what would you do? (I'd still make it legal.) The issue is more complex than many would make it out to be. Where prostitution is legal in this country (Nevada) the marketplace seems, without the help of Dr. Kessler and his minions, to have dictated the universal use of condoms, and the spread of all STDs is slower than in other areas, like here in Miami (where prostitution is (nominally) illegal. JMR Regards, Jim Ray -- DNRC Minister of Encryption Advocacy "They never say: 'Please vote for me because I have an obsessive, all-consuming need, bordering on mental illness, to live in the White House and fly around in Air Force One and have a vast entourage of lackeys.'" -- Dave Barry, describes Bill, Bob, and Ross in the Miami Herald, September 22, 1996 Defeat the Duopoly! Vote Harry & Jo http://www.HarryBrowne96.org/ ___________________________________________________________________ PGP id.E9BD6D35 51 5D A2 C3 92 2C 56 BE 53 2D 9C A1 B3 50 C9 C8 I will generate a new (and bigger) PGP key-pair on election night. jmr@shopmiami.com ___________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMniSrm1lp8bpvW01AQGGxAP/b72K+0PXT9xxE1E2KCgls5iXSvVvlnoa aqG3mJuVjPDbPLVCav5ajHjdO8IoNyk7B6LnoBRH0haTn+3yd0tHYI/yMRKwmaJR 4FjmoTKDOF45obWtynqalfHetkAfZtBzVfyM4iLHG5YHnGiEgKg8baiffr6AGxYp me6gehTq1p8= =296o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----