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From: sam@rocksvax.UUCP
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Subject: RE: Sin in NY State plus.....
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Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 10:58:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 23 10:58:59 1984
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Ok, I started this thing because I was primarily ticked
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off at the promotion of gambling (several forms) by my
wonderful state and I brought up state-run
brothels only as a reductio ad absurdum. Now we're
getting an education on that issue; but it seems that
the arguments here are equally valid to gambling:

	* pragmatically, people who choose to engage in
	prostitution (gambling) are safer or better off
	if the state makes it legal or runs it.

	* morally, the state has no business being involved
	in legalized prostitution (gambliing) because people's
	lives can be ruined by this activity.

Isn't there any sympathy for my original, prime, argument
that the whole thing seemed dumb because it was economically
inefficient and unfair for the state to collect taxes by
actively being involved in the "business" of gambling?  
I'm almost sorry I brought up the moral stuff.

By the way--does Nevada presently have legalized prostitution?

		not *that* sorry in NY,

			sam