[Rastonbury]

That assertion is absurd. Policy making is so much more nuanced than maximising economic growth and productivity, look as subsidies and protection of interest groups at economic cost. Tobacco and alcohol are both legal

A lawmaker is not looking at prostitution from an economic lens, they are looking at how their constituents will react with horror at how the representative is enabling what they perceive as vice

[hoseja]

And why are they perceiving it as a vice? Try looking at religion/morality as a social engineering framework and it's obvious.

[naveen99]

Exactly! Thanks.