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We are all animals at night

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Re: We are all animals at night

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There are more corrupt people in my country, especially for puan Maharani He is a rat with a tie that we deserve to break into his personal data to reveal his vicious secret #jokowi Dodo #darkweb

Re: We are all animals at night

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post #278

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> What of a child born from a prostitute? That's an interesting statement. Do you think that sex workers should not be allowed to have children? Any other noteworthy groups in your eugenics policy?

It was a question , not a statement . And your ended with a loaded question. Not cool.

It was a rhetorical question, which makes it a statement. And that someone would even ask it speaks volumes about their beliefs.

Re: We are all animals at night

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post #278

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It was a question , not a statement . And your ended with a loaded question. Not cool.

It was a rhetorical question, which makes it a statement. And that someone would even ask it speaks volumes about their beliefs.

My belief is that prostitutes generally aren't treated that well. I imagine children of prostitutes don't typically have great childhoods either. Do you have reason to refute either of those claims? I'm not against fairly treated sex workers, but that's not the reality we live in right now. It's the minority at best.

Re: We are all animals at night

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What do you think causes this difference?

Fear, of course. Abroad in the night, the human world grows tenuous, and one's connection to it likewise. Most people can learn to live in that, but you never feel perfectly at home with it. Nor should you; there's nothing like it to dispel the comfortable, foolish illusion that the world belongs to us, and not the other way around. Humans are better, I find, for a little fear of that sort. It makes us stick closer t…

That was good writing, thanks! I don’t know why you got downvoted

Re: We are all animals at night

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She only has experience with customers who seek her out though. What about the type of men who would never ask for her services? She knows nothing about them.

You think the author has never had normal relationships with men? Why would you assume that?

Many normal men wouldn't want to form a long-term relationship with a current or former prostitute/sex worker, especially one that glorifies and defends that line of work instead of renouncing it completely, as the author does.
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