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From: root@rice.EDU (Dione)
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Subject: Re: Legalizing and taxing vices(in this case prostitution)
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Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 16:32:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  8 16:32:21 1986
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In article <866@drutx.UUCP> dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL) writes:

>I also oppose such legalization, but for different reasons.  For instance,
>legalizing prostitution makes the government the pimp this time.  I would
>rather they be decriminalized; not legal, not illegal, not taxed -- just
>left alone.                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>David Olson
>..!ihnp4!drutx!dlo
>
Every act is either legal or illegal by definition. Sometimes it takes long
court case to decide *which* of these categories a given act belongs in,
but it is always at least potentially in exactly one of the two.

"If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice!"

Arvind Rajan
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