Is that a serious question? Except for the extremely rich or otherwise influential a lone individual is not going to prevent it, nor usually would a well organised group of individuals. I have suffered some considerable experience of this sort of thing, what used to laughingly be called "planning" but more recently "development control", with a wry smile. To get the best result bypass the bureaucracy; go straight to the developer or his architect to talk face to face, and be realistic about what sort of mercy to beg for. --- Ron.
Of course it's serious. I want to hear a libertarians answer to the supermarket connundrum. P.S. Did I accidentally kill your favorite pooch or something? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yes. I wonder how you relate to the issue. Are you harmed, directly or indirectly? I appreciate personal experience, first hand knowledge. --- Ron.
Prostitution is legal my naive friends. Go to a bar, buy drink. Go on a date, buy dinner and give nice shiny gift. Prostitution now is gifts for sex instead of money, but it still exists. There are women who have sex for favors, I'm not talking gifts, I'm talking "favors" as in quid-pro-quo type favors. There are women who have sex for raises, and men do these things too. On a certain level we all sell our bodies, it's just that street prostitution is illegal. Even if you sell pro tapes and are a porn star this form of prostition is legal, only street prostituion where a hooker is outside begging for sex is illegal.
The short answer is that you may very well not be able to prevent it. Sad as that is, the harm that will be done to you and others in your plight is far less than the harm that is invariably done to huge numbers of people by laws like this. The long answer is that in a city without zoning laws supermarkets might not be economically viable. The shop next to your house would more likely be a neighborhood mom'n'pop store like they have in San Francisco. People love the convenience of walking to the corner and don't feel the need to go to a supermarket nearly as often, which as a result are far less common than in most American cities. This is a perfect example of how zoning laws, like so many laws, end up being nothing more than corporate welfare. It's difficult for individuals and partnerships to build and operate one supermarket, much less the chain structure that gives them their competitive advantage to buy in bulk from corporate producers. Sure there are people who don't like living near a mom'n'pop, but "near" in this context simply means a few doors on either side. And there are plenty of people who don't mind at all because they're the noisy neighbors you don't want around either and zoning laws don't do anything about them.
The supermarket was a stupid invention from the start because it lowers the quality of the food. If we sell wives and husbands in a supermarket format, it will lower the quality. On the other hand, people should have the option to buy a partner. It's rational for me because I'd have less competition in the contest of winning a partner.
I suppose this makes sense. I currently enjoy a quiet rural existence in an Ag zone. I'd hate to have that intruded upon by any commercial enterprise. Selfish, maybe. But true nonetheless.
Muslim I think clean regularly health inspected brothels should be legal,as it is a matter of choice. BUT this would NOT clean up our streets as the sort of prostitutes (drug addicts) that stand on street corners would not get emnployment at a nice clean user friendly brothel. Have you seen the state of some of these 'girls' and the 'age' some are old enough to be your gran. toothless, unwashed, bony hags. Should we legalise the whole lot then and get it all off our streets? Well I would not want to live next to a woman having gentleman callers at all hours of day and night, who upon seeing me may wonder if I am one too, or my kids. As for training them, are you nuts? Why not train men to service women and give them certificates so the ones you sleep with don't have to fake it Muslim?
Yes, so we should repeal the drug laws too. People wouldn't have to turn to crime to buy drugs if they were not sold at black market prices. Bad laws breed more bad laws. The consequences of one are used as justification for the next one. It's a death spiral.
Prostitution is already legal... what do you think clubs/bars are? You pay the girls with booze and they polish your knob after a set limit.
if a girl intends to have sex with you, you don't have to ply her with drinks and get her beyond the capacity for informed 'consent', that by the way makes it 'rape' not prostitution.
Yeah, but if you get her drunk, she got drunk by her own consent. She is still responsible for her own actions, drunk or not. I hate hearing about women complaining about being taken advantage of at college campuses. Well, by that I really mean this scenario: they get really hammered, fuck some dude and regret it later. Then they blame the guy they fucked like it's his fault and they bitch like they shouldn't have been taking advantage. They're responsible for their actions, drunk or not. If they don't want to do things they're regret later, they shouldn't get intoxicated. Well. That's all, I guess.
Exactly I am talking about legit prostitutes, not all prostates are drug addicts. No I have not seen them! Your claim is highly exaggerated. They probably do not even compromise of even 1% of the world prostitute population. No we can have certain section of cities where prostitutes can freely operate. So now you're wanting to discriminate, thats silly as seeing I don't want black people living next to me because someone might think I am a drug dealer. Majority of the prostitutes are women, and the men already have the money and education to have sex with them. We should give degrees to women prostitutes and make it a career choice for them so they can get a job as a prostitute and be employed. I didn't go create women for the pleasure of man? he created the woman so the man would not be lonely.
Who in here has not prostituted himself? The only difference is the price. The cheap ones, the less discriminating ones, are called: whores. The more expensive ones, the more discriminating ones, are called: lovers, workers, wives/husbands etc. All human relationships are Give & Take arrangements. One gives in order to receive. One sells in order to buy. One sacrifices and invests in order to gain.
The law is in the process of changing to demosntrate that a woman once drunk is not capable of 'informed consent' you guys better watch out. I am not in agreement with this change, but they are trying to make it happen, hence my comment. I saw a program about 'date rape' and the fact they are extending it beyond 'if she said no and you carried on it's rape' to 'if she said yes but she was drunk then she was not capable of giving informed consent so it's rape' They want to stop men taking advantage of drunk women, but what they are forgetting is that the male is also likely to be drunk and how is he supposed to assess the point at which the woman is incapable of informed consent?
