
Of course we had a very bloody war against alcohol too. Vice brings the scorn of religious folks that want us all to live Christ-like. I don’t see anything wrong with being Christ-like, but for our government’s demand that we follow religious ideals.
Vice crimes are a victimless classification of offenses that have purely religious origins.
Sometimes people are kidnapped to work as sex slaves and that is absolutely a concern of any government. That’s not a valid excuse for government to try and regulate anyone’s sex life. There are lots of valid laws that regulate kidnapping.
Today Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam," hanged herself rather that deal with a 55 year prison term she faced for hurting nobody. I find the penalties themselves shocking and the suicide revolting. I cannot see a lengthy prison term as somehow a better option than death.
Our prisons mix cannibals, deranged perverts and purely violent people with gentle prisoners. Inmates are all treated poorly by a miserable underclass of government workers misleadingly called correctional officers. Simple loss of freedom is pale by comparison.
Presently the United States has more people in prison per capita than any other country. Why do we throw good money after bad destroying lives over petty vice crimes? I don’t think that’s what Christ ever intended.
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she was pimping underage girls.
Truth is , she was catering to a need. Another ugly truth is that healthy men love sex and lots of it; therefore will go to any means to get it.
Every civilized country has legalized prostitution. And these are countries that are suppose to be more progressive that us. Holland ring a bell?
55 years and she didnt kill anyone
(or abort a fetus); go screw yourselves. Paul's right on this one!
Like every young man that joins an elite combat unit: he's a big boy and knows that he could die on a parachute jump or captured/tortured
/killed behind enemy lines; those women chose to do their services for the money and volunteered also!