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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Subject: Re: Legal Sin in New York State?
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 01:45:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 01:45:30 1984
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T.C. Wheeler - have you missed the entire point of the original article?

The fact that the state(s) support an "immoral" activity means that a
conflict of interest exists, and that there is less chance that anything
will really get done where people are being hurt, directly or indirectly,
by that activity.  That is an unfortunate but real side effect of the
often beneficial state monitoring of "immoral" activities.

The problem is hardly as simple or as easy as it should be, because if
the state STOPS its involvement, then the criminal element happily jumps
into the breach.  If it isn't already there trying hard to take more.

Oh well.  A great topic for flaming and I barely managed to light a match.