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On 31 Jan 2005 14:43:31 -0800, wrote:

OK. I'm confused.

Prostitution is legal in Germany.
This woman was offered a job.

If she turned down legal employment here in the US, there would be huge
numbers of right wingers screaming to have her cut from any welfare or
unemployment benefits.

Does this mean that the next uneducated young white woman, living on
welfare in a broken down single wide on a gravel lot in West Virginia,
will get a sympathetic response if she turns down a job cleaning
toilets at WalMart as something that would be beneath her dignity?

How often do we hear that the unemployed or those on welfare should be
compelled to take *any* job?

It isn't like she has been asked to do something illegal.
It isn't even all that immoral, compared to, say, working in a liquor
store and passing bottles of hootch out the "drive-thru" window.
(playing devil's advocate can be fun!)

Three things:

1. We're not in Germany, who's evidently allowed its moral compass to
go far south.

2. There's a big difference between cleaning toilets and cheapening
the moral sanctity of monogamous sex and marriage.

3. Would she get "hazard pay" for the risks of exposure to STD's?

Dave