Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!kestrel.arpa!king
From: king@kestrel.arpa
Newsgroups: mod.politics
Subject: Poli-Sci Digest   V6 #65
Message-ID: <12234058388.49.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 01:29:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: RED.12234058388.49.MCGREW
Posted: Wed Aug 27 01:29:53 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Aug-86 21:14:38 EDT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: king@kestrel.arpa
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 53
Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu


   Return-path: <@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU:KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU>
   Date: Sun, 17 Aug 86 19:03:35 EDT
   From: "Keith F. Lynch" <KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU>
   Subject: Cost of Justice
   To: TESTA-J%OSU-20@OHIO-STATE.ARPA

       From: ~joe testa~ <TESTA-J%OSU-20@ohio-state.ARPA>

        .  .  . [omitted point-counterpoint]

       > You can't put a monetary value on rape (unless the victim was
       >a prostitute).

       What???  It is more ok to rape prostitutes???

     No.  I didn't say that.
     Prostitution should be legal.  (It already is in Nevada.)
   Conservatives oppose prostitution.  Liberals sometimes advocate it,
   but are confused by the contradiction:

   1) Nobody should be forced to have sex against their will.

   2) Any business person should sell their wares to anyone with
      money, as has been pretty generally agreed to since the 1960s
      lunch counter boycotts.

   3) Anything two consenting adults choose to do is ok.

     There is no way to believe both 1 and 2 and to advocate
   legalization of prostitution.  But there is no way to believe 3
   without advocating legalization of prostitution.  A paradox.
     Everyone agrees on point 1.  Where liberals go wrong is with
   point 2.  Not everyone agrees that any customer must be served.
   Libertarians are the only ones to advocate both freedom and a
   consistent political system.

I don't understand.  1> 2> and 3> taken together don't lead to a
contradiction, anymore than

a> nobody should be forced to cook for others against their will

b> A lunch counter should sell to any customer with money

c> Selling lunches is okay

I don't necessarily agree with 2>, but it does not strike me as
inconsistent to codify a principle that if you are in a certain
business you should serve all customers.  It is not nonsensical to say
that a prostitute can't refuse customers.

-dick
-------