Morality of prostitution debate
This thread is to elaborate on something that was brought up in the WoV thread here
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Pepe... You are out of your flipping mind if you think prostitution or prostitutes are a victimless crime. I don't even have to research the subject very much to prove you wrong. It is a known fact that many hookers are abused from family members at a very young age or are controlled by someone like a pimp.
Many does not mean all, and that is irrelevant from a libertarian perspective of morality. The libertarian perspective of morality is not concerned with the past circumstances that cause a decision but only with whether that particular act or transaction in that moment violates the Non Aggression Principle. Therefore if there is a pimp involved the only one committing an immoral act is the pimp, unless the john is knowingly transacting with the pimp instead of the girl.
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It is also known that the sex slave trade runs rampant turning little girls into paid whores or just sex slaves period for wealthy aristocrats.
Much like drugs, this is a result of it being illegal rather than an inherent trait of the business.
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Next Pepe you have plenty of hookers running scams on Johns or outright strong arming them so stop this nonsense about a victimless crime.
This is like saying because Bernie Madoff ran a stock scam all stock investing is immoral.
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Try to tell the IRS that nonsense.
From the libertarian perspective the very existence of the IRS is much more immoral than the world's oldest profession.
Now I will postscript this by saying I am arguing these points from the libertarian perspective of morality (which like all attempts at universal moral systems, is flawed), not my own.