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Town Hall Meeting: Prostitution

should Prostitution be legal?

Pros:

1) If legalized, sex workers would then be able to enjoy full protection of the law. This is huge, and something that is often overlooked. If a patron is abusive, threatening, or generally just wrongs them in a way that is unlawful, current day sex workers have nearly no options. If they go to the police, they must first admit they committed a crime before accusing the person who wronged them. It is incredibly unlikely that their accusation will lead to anything, but the fact that they admitted to a crime will almost certainly lead to consequences for them. This is an insane and unfair imbalance in power.

2) Personal bodily autonomy means that we’re allowed to do with our bodies what we like, and with whom. If I want to have sex with someone and charge them money, interfering with that is stripping me of my right to do what I want with the one thing that is more mine than any other thing.

Cons:

1) Legalized prostitution seems to lead to an increase in sex trafficking anywhere that it’s implemented. I’m not going to speculate no the whys or the hows, but this is obviously incredibly bad.

2) Sexual consent in situations where someone is financially forced into sex work is nebulous at best. The patron of a sex worker doesn’t need to be coercing the worker for the worker too be coerced. If the sex worker lacks the money for food or shelter and sex work is their only option to survive, meaningful consent seems impossible to establish. Their patron might not be holding a gun to their head, but their well being still hinges on having sex with people who they likely would not otherwise be willing to.

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Town Hall Meeting: Private Prisons

prison questions and answers

For

Prison is expensive. Housing, feeding, caring for, and reintroducing people to society is an enormous financial burden. Privatizing allows us to push this onto someone else and, in theory, this incentivization for prisons to save money will naturally move them to find the most efficient way to do so.

It’s always a good thing to allow independent contractors to provide resources and services because it allows creativity and, inevitably, improvements to a system that otherwise would have remained consistent. Do you think prisons are doing a terrible job rehabilitating prisoners? Well, open up a prison, you can actually do that, and prove your idea for how to “fix” criminals works better than the current structure of prisons.

Against

Privatizing prisons now makes an inmate a cost. This cost is something a private business will do everything they can to maximize profit on. This includes minimizing healthcare, crowding your prisons, cutting corners wherever possible and, most damningly, pushing a system that encourages prison time to ensure your revenue streams do not dry up. We’ve already seen some private prisons straight paying people for policies that increase incarceration.

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