On other side many people lost unemployment support, because they refused to work in brothel as cleaners or maintenance personnel.
I fully support this. STIs are one of the biggest public costs of prostitution.
(Yes, this is a public cost. Every time a new person is infected with (e.g.) HIV, from an epidemiological perspective, that increases the chances of some copy of the virus in some person mutating into a virulent - even airborne - version. This is why you should care about HIV infection rates, even if you practice safe sex and don't use IV drugs, etc.[0])
> On other side many people lost unemployment support, because they refused to work in brothel as cleaners or maintenance personnel.
How is that any different from refusing to work in a hotel or a hospital as a janitor (or even as a nurse[1])?
They may not like the line of work, but that's no different from disliking taking a job at Halliburton. While I sympathize with the goal of choosing a job ethically, in the US (not sure about Germany), unemployment benefits and requirements aren't designed with that in mind.
[0] Even "curable" STIs are a public health problem We are already on the verge of creating - if we haven't already created - strains of gonorrhea that are resistant to all antibiotic treatments.
[1] You wouldn't believe some of the stuff nurses in hospitals have to put up with on a daily basis.
Not sure what is situation in US. But in contimental Europe one pays a lot of money on social tax (about 10% of salary). And government will jump through hoops to pay as little as possible.
I'm not sure how else you would handle it.
Can society even afford to pay to put all of those people on disability for life (and pay for their healthcare)?
> Every time a new person is infected with (e.g.) HIV, from an epidemiological perspective, that increases the chances of some copy of the virus in some person mutating into a virulent - even airborne - version
More virulent, sure I'll grant that. But airborne?! HIV is in the Lentivirus family of Retroviridae. They're slow to reproduce, and airborne viruses need to be expelling many viral particles into the air to transmit. Additionally-- from where would HIV aerosolize?
The only airborne retrovirus that I came across is Jaagsiekte, and it's benefited by that because it specifically targets the lungs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaagsiekte_sheep_retrovirus
HIV already has lower transmission rates in genital->throat scenarios. It has too many evolutionary hurdles to become an airborne virus. If HIV does oneday become airborne it's morphology would look so different that we'd classify it as something else.
Rhinoviruses (the virus that causes the common cold) are easily aerosolized because they're tiny and are in a protein capsid.
Sorry, that was maybe an overkill explanation, and the core of your statement ("more virulent") is correct. It just triggered some nerding out :D
Clearly you haven't visited Bankok :-)
Do you have any source for your statement on many people loosing unemployment benefits for refusing to work in brothels ? That sounds quite fishy.
I have no credible source I could post here. However the work is for _SUPPORT_ personnel, not actual prostitutes.
It's my understanding that what you've said is a myth. In any case, all reasonable social security policies have a "ethical objection clause", e.g. people can't be forced to work in occupations that they ethically object to - and this should mean that social security should be impossible to lose for refusal of employment.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/148...