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In reply to the discussion: There is nothing wrong with Porn & Prostitution [View all]LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)For example: If we deprive women of legal abortion, abortions will happen anyway, but the methods won't be safe. It makes sense to them when you put it that way. Because it's logical. We on the left approach abortion more logically than Republicans, who cannot see past their ideology to make the rational decision: safe, legal abortion regulated by medicine and science, not fear and emotion. In this, we see reason.
But tragically, some who see reason on abortion can't apply it to the pointless War on Drugs. Or to the pointless (and futile) outlawing of prostitution. They are intellectually imprisoned by their ideology, depriving themselves of rational thinking on this subject.
You criminalize it, drive it underground, the demand is still there, so it harms people and helps no one.
This inconsistent application of reason causes harm. Can they see it? No.