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heylefty

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    Comment #8058257

    I've found SSL certs for as low as $4/year. At that price, I wouldn't risk free.

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    Comment #8058242

    This is some crazy-ass shit.

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    Comment #8057776

    A joke is only funny the first time. Exceptions to this are very rare. This is not one of them.

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    Comment #8057239

    > Studies show that rapists are not, in general, men who can't get sex another way, but rather men who want to exert power over women. No, they don't. This is not and cannot be the…

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    Comment #8057236

    Not necessarily. Some producers star in their own porn videos. So they pay someone to have sex with them. Still 100% legal. The only difference is the existence of a camera. It's k…

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    Comment #8057226

    What are the moral implications of buying a Roomba from Amazon now? Same thing.

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    Comment #8057224

    We're not talking about rape here. So that's a non-sequitur. You're moving goalposts.

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    Comment #8057217

    All decisions are made in the face of economic coercion, because every decision is made to cater to one's reward function. What you are saying is absolute nonsense in light of deci…

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    Comment #8056696

    It's not prostitution if you're getting the product/service for free. A whore and a slut are different things.

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    Comment #8056693

    The way I see it, prostitution is damaging to women because it reduces the value of sex to its fair market value. It reduces women's bargaining power. A man who would like to have …

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    Comment #8056692

    A victim of human trafficking is not a victim of prostitution. Nor is such victimization any sort of collateral damage, it is direct. Furthermore, the legalization of prostitution …

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    Comment #8056691

    I thought it was obvious, but I'll spell it out for you. A worldview that would seek to ban all employment without proposing some alternative method of partitioning the world's lim…

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    Comment #8056192

    Everything in the universe is impacted by everything else that happens. That's a useless tautology.

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    Comment #8056189

    Well, it's certainly truer for prostitution than it is for conventional relationships. Use fuzzy logic to process the truth here.

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    Comment #8056174

    > The reality is that since women make, on average, 2/3 of what men make False. The actual reality is that, when adjusted for skill and seniority, women make just as much as men. T…

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    Comment #8056172

    There is never a balance of power between the employer and the employee. If there were, the employee wouldn't have to work for the employer, since he'd have just as much money and …

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    Comment #8056156

    If each instance of the supposed crime is victimless, where do the supposed victims come from?