--- Marlon Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My counter to your moralistic argument is this: > Suppose you were to convince a prostitute to give up > her evil ways, you would still need to provide her > with an alternate income source to replace what she > lost. Now try replicating this solution for the > hundreds of thousands, if not millions of other > women > (and men). Furthermore, why just limit this to > prostitutes and provide these benefits to the > hundreds > of millions of destitutes. If not, we would have a > peculiar situation of many people claiming to be > prostitutes in order to qualify for these benefits. > Clearly, the resources simply do not exist to do > this. > To me therefore, the solution is to deal with this > issue from a macroeconomic point of view.
Marlon, I once read somewhere that when you pay a prostitute $50, you are not paying her for sex. You are actually paying her to go away. :-) It seems to me that there is an endless source of $50 and hence an endless source of prostitutes....... Mervyn ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
