Sunday 16 November 2008

Vice and Drugs

By all means let it be made a criminal offence for any person above the age of consent (which should be raised to 18) to buy, or attempt to buy, sex. And let it also be made be made a criminal offence, with an exactly equal sentence, for any person above that age to sell, or attempt to sell, sex. Since the former are usually men and the latter usually women, are women morally and intellectually equal to men, or not?

Meanwhile, cannabis must be made a Class A drug, accompanied by a crackdown on the possession of drugs, including a mandatory sentence of three months for a second offence, six months for a third offence, one year for a fourth offence, and so on.

But how much longer must be endure the "free" market, which cannot be at all without being in prostitution, pornography, drugs, the lot? That is the real problem.

2 comments:

  1. You have allowed up angry comments from prostitutes in the past. None today?

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  2. They always seem to arrive quite a while after the original post.

    Anyway, I'm not sure that I should let them up. I wouldn't put up self-justifying comments from drug dealers, for example.

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