David Harsanyi on Commerce As Culture War
Posted: February 16, 2012 Filed under: Personal Freedom, Personal Liberty, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
David Harsanyi on Commerce As Culture War
The moral and constitutional case for a right to gay marriage
Posted: January 7, 2010 Filed under: Gay Marriage, Personal Freedom, Personal Liberty Leave a comment »Smoking Bans? Why Not Football Bans?
Posted: December 14, 2009 Filed under: Personal Freedom, Personal Liberty, Smoking Leave a comment »An average smoker loses 11 minutes of life for every cigarette.
An average NFL football player loses 1,460 – 2,190 minutes of life for every minute of football played (if my calculations are correct).
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/12/football-decimation.html
Anti-Sex School for Johns?
Posted: August 29, 2009 Filed under: Personal Liberty, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Anti-Sex School for Johns?
In a novel approach to punishing men who attempt to hire prostitutes, Nashville and other cities are sending first-time offenders to a one-day class where they learn from former prostitutes, health experts, psychologists and law enforcement officers about “the risks of hiring a prostitute.”
This is a waste of time.
Prostitution is “the oldest profession” for a reason: sex is a biological imperative. A day of anti-sex school will have no effect on the demand for prostitution.
The better approach is to legalize.
Under legalization, the vast majority of men would patronize legal establishments. This would also allow quality control, since competition would encourage prostitution services to certify their employees as free from STDs and above the age of consent. Legalization would help the women who serve as prostitutes by reducing the violence they suffer from johns and pimps. In particular, legalization would mainly eliminate forced prostitution.
The claim that prostitution encourages sexual assault does not pass the sniff test. Many countries, plus Nevada and Rhode Island, allow legal prostitution to varying degrees, but no evidence suggests they have a higher incidence of violence toward women.
Daniel J. SmithSent Via Mobile Phone
