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by lists 2986 days ago
> How does your comment fit with children being drugged and forced into prostitution?

That's already illegal. You've just made discovering it harder.

> And then adults being drugged and forced into prostitution?

Also already illegal. You've made discovering it harder.

> And then adults feeding a drug addiction?

That's actually none of your business.

> At which point of this ladder do you start to say "no, this is where we need to make it illegal"?

There's no need since you don't actually solve coerced prostitution by making it illegal.

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>That's already illegal.

Maybe we should just make one singular law that says "be nice".

Hey, I bet you could make a religion out of that!

/s

Saying there is already a law that covers something is disconnected from reality, or at least disconnected form language and the way that humans communicate.

For instance: "drugging people is illegal". You haven't defined "drugging" or "people" in that case. Is it drugging a person when a school nurse gives a child a acetaminophen? You're definitely changing both their physical and psychological state, and are in some way establishing a relationship of dependence.

This is why we have more than one law, and why we don't base our laws on religion.