On Apr 9, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps, but I fear that the cure is worse than the disease. It's a horrible > thing that women are incarcerated in the United States for prostitution. One > can acknowledge this without being pro-prostitution, just as one can > acknowledge that it's horrible that people are incarcerated in the United > States for minor marijuana crimes without being pro-marijuana. The bar for > using incarceration as a means of punishing and deterring non-violent > behavior which is judged to be anti-social should be much higher in the > United States than it is. This is much more important than whether some > academics have gotten carried away with irrational exuberance about "sex > work." > ======== It seems clear that there is *no* agreement in the US as to who is capable of judging just what is constitutive of non-violent, anti-social behavior. Do you really think Richard Posner and Martha Minow are *more* qualified than you or other list participants to make a decision re sex and weed? After all their brains are just like yours. E. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
