That's an insanely modern/left view with zero consideration to basically all historically socially accepted conservative views of the past.
It's trendy to support sex workers online in 2020 but in the 2000s I'm pretty sure 95% of white suburbia wouldn't have wanted their daughters hanging out with sex workers.
No, not every culture in history has been saddled with the Judeo-Christian prejudice against women and their sexuality.
Also, historically socially accepted "conservative" views include slavery, rule by divine right, child labor and trial by combat. A view having been held and taken for granted for a long time doesn't make it correct.
The leftist mob of blue Twitter checkmarks has been cancelling people since about... 2012? It's trendy to be pro sex work, anti-corporation in 2020.
The majority of people commenting online about how "pro sex work" they are do not have a sex worker in their life by a longshot. It's all theory/keyboard warrior/armchair activist stuff.
Also, you completely discredited yourself from any sort of worthy debate with "leftist mob".
The Cato Institute has been pretty consistently pro legalization. Are they "leftist"?
This really shouldn't be a left/right issue. As a matter of public health, criminalization and measures like SESTA/FOSTA just lead to more dead sex workers
https://www.engadget.com/2018-04-27-suicide-violence-and-goi...
If you need more than 3 qualifiers it's probably BS. You could just post why you think sex work is bad, but your numerous posts on this topic all seem to rely on invoking social sanctions or paranoia, ie making people feel bad about it without saying why you think they should.
Seems kinda like your personal hangup.
I'm trying to gauge the pulse of what HackerNews thinks.
I’m not “trendy”, it’s a deeply held philosophical belief about individual freedom.
We live in a free society, and if someone wants to be filmed naked, or paid to have sex, that's their decision to make regardless if it makes you feel icky.
I hope you have spent your whole life abstaining from pornography, because you must feel a great deal of anger at them and shame for what they did.
I vastly prefer a system with switching costs (like needing to move somewhere where its legal) than one which puts a social burden on girls to do this when times are tough. "Porn star" sounds sex-positive, lucrative, and happy. Getting fucked by a landlord is a lot more grim.
So we're not talking about OnlyFans anymore are we?
Also what about all the women who enjoy doing online sex work? Are you telling them they shouldn't be allowed to work a job they enjoy?
The topic of sex work morality acceptance has a very "me versus them" vibe to it, much like left versus right in the US.
Is there any middle ground of "you can do whatever you want, I am not infringing on your rights, but I personally disagree" that doesn't land the speaker into "time to get cancelled by the leftist mob for being a bigot" territory?
As for middle ground I understand that some people might “personally disagree” and I get that. There are a lot of things in the world that I personally disagree with, too. Like marriage, for example. I wouldn’t be caught dead getting married. But I understand that some people want to and it makes some people happy. And even though I choose not to participate I still support my friends and family who do.
The difference, in my mind, is “X is not right for me” vs “X is not right”. One is about personal opinion and the other is about forcing that opinion onto others who might not share it.