By Na'ama Sheffi: Selling their bodies and their souls
Talkback
Title:curious I
Name:CHGODMK
City: State:
I mean simplistic thinking in terms of a simplistic moralist like you, who would rather cast blame and punish, rather than actually look at the particular problem and resolve the issue at hand. First, you made comparisons between prostitution and other crimes, such as murder, and non-crimes, like envy, which betrays your tendency to think in callous, blanket terms,, rather than comprehend the particular issue of prostitution and work at a solution. Second, rather than look at this particular issue, you start to ramble about communist and Islamic regimes, which are only tangential to the issue of whether or not to legalize prostitution in Israel, or the US, for the sake of protecting the victims of this exploitation, who are the prostitutes. Tell me, is it moral to allow a prostitute to be abused and beatened, sometimes to death, and to allow him or her no legal recourse, all because of the circumstances he/she was reduced to? That`s where your simplistic moralism takes this issue.