One cannot have an argument over an emotion? Oh really?
Yes, really. An emotion is not a debatable concept. One simply has an emotion. One cannot say that a person did, or did not experience an emotion. An emotion is neither right nor wrong. The occurrence of an emotion is an irrefutable fact.
For example, if I say that pepperoni pizza makes me happy, you cannot say that I am wrong with any veracity. The fact is that pepperoni pizza does indeed make me happy. You cannot validly say that my happiness does not exist, nor can you validly say that what I an feeling is not happiness.
What you're telling me is that I should not feel the way I do about prostitutes. That is not debate. That is not an argument. That is moral opinion, a/k/a dogma.
Then what about the emotions of bigoted whites which were certainly argued over by your whole country leading to the Civil Rights Act?--Emotions were examined, found to be wrong, and some change was possible. How about the emotions of homophobes that have led...well, you know where I am headed. Concerted behaviour that leads to discounting and oppression is by its very nature emotional and bigoted. Our job is to examine emotional responses that target others, see if they have any reality about them, and if they do not, to uproot them.
Wrong.
The Civil Rights Movement was not played on an emotional gridiron, but rather the legal and behavioral gridirons. It was racist laws and behaviors that were challenged specifically, not racist emotions. Don't play the race card with me. You'll always lose.
There is no government or law that is capable of controlling a human emotion. Governments and laws can only reward or punish behavior.
I gave you my own personal experience with this problem, and my knowing at firsthand that sex-trade workers are not scum. They may have troubled backgrounds and make bad choices based on that background, but they are not scum. They are trying to do the best they can in the face of daunting odds, and they are not scum.
Excuses.
I have my own personal experience with whores. I have never seen any good come from the practice of prostitution. If you have, I'd be interested to hear your stories, and learn of the outcomes. At least we both agree that prostitution is a problem.
Your reply was that I was new to BetterMost, you don't care about my emotional state, and that I should save my outrage for somebody who actually cares. Well, that is quite a thought-out, rational response! I think you shot yourself in the foot on this one. I sense that other people here, while they may not favour prostitution, do not consider sex-trade workers to be scum.
OK. Here's where you shot
yourself in the foot: you called for other netizens of Bettermost to come here and chastise me for my opinion on prostitution. That is a boldface, disrespectful confrontation. You crossed the border into the land called FuckinWithMilo. You really don't want to be there.
Try your comments out again, substituting Black or gay for sex-trade worker, and see how uncomfortably close they come to the emotion brought to the treatment of such minorities in North America and the world.
Apples and oranges.
Being black or homosexual are innate human traits. Being a prostitute is, for the most part, a career choice. The former are not comparable to the latter.