That's a good plan. We did that with drugs and it worked fabulously.
It did! We saw with the opioid crisis just how much devastation can be caused by a single drug wiggling its way into legality.
What was that single drug?
Oxycodone. Purdue Pharma sold a formulation of it in their product called OxyContin, which had (still has!) a variety of legitimate medical uses. But it's also very easy for addicts to abuse, and Purdue pushed doctors to prescribe it widely with few controls, which is generally believed to have sparked the US's huge surge in opioid abuse. (Of course, merely cracking down on oxycodone didn't resolve the problem, because once someone's addicted they become highly motivated to find some other opioid.)
Now you have two problems: That poor soul has lost their meager income and you've criminalized countless people who will no doubt still be consuming porn but from illicit sources
That's what the private prisons are for!
So your position here is that we should take away their job, leaving them to suffer in abject poverty, while simultaneously banning wealthy Westerners from looking at shocked gasp tits?
You can never tell for sure on the internet - but i would assume the person you were replying to was being sarcastic.
False dichotomy. HN commenters will engage in endless mental gymnastics to justify their desire to goon.
I don't think baseline human desires need a whole lot of justification, bud
cope
you couldn't because someone who sexts people for 2$ an hour is always going to engage in wage slavery, and if that is what offends you, you could just ban it directly.
We all know it's not the point though, you're just offended by porn, if she was cleaning floors for two bucks you wouldn't care. In fact her chatter job, on account of her doing it, is likely better than a lot of other work.