People can choose to do good without a government telling them to. If you have to be told to do the right thing in everything by your government you eventually loose that muscle.
It's important to have the capacity to say "I want to do this, but that would be a bad idea, so I'm not going to."
Keep in mind that the prostitution happened without the government there. Prostitution is bad because it produces bad outcomes, hence why we dislike it. So now we just took those negative outcomes that exist without government and made them more negative by making one of the consequences jail.
I like the way you put this; it's 100% better than the way that retard @pol_pot put it (yes, I'm pinging you: faggot. Still care to join the debate, or are you going to continue to cower behind your faux sense of superiority?) I agree that prostitution happened without government interaction. If I agree to that: will you agree to notice that I said no mention of "more government" being the solution? If anything: my position is that further legislation is going to do nothing more than legitimize evil, by giving people a legal scapegoat (another jewish construction, neatly enough). Arbitrarily granting people "more freedoms" isn't going to solve any problems; some things are taboo for a reason. Killing babies is wrong. Ending your genetic lineage by refusing to put your penis in a vagina is wrong.
No man is an island. The fact that we are to exist, as a species, means that we have to work with (and to a certain extent: begrudgingly agree with) one another. We're looking at this problem from a perspective of differing expectations, however: because you posit that by adding heftiness to the weight of consequences, that we're somehow negatively affecting the situation. But if that were the case: why do you even have any punishment, for any "crime", to begin with?
Gov't pretending like what they say really matters as usual. People are going to do what they do, and as long as they aren't harming anyone, who cares. Good to see you are well aware.
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