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To: Neocon who wrote (1866)	3/4/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

No, because the crackdowns on prostitution are whimsical. I have yet to be pulled over and not given a ticket. If the cops can give them out, they will. Regardless of what they say, they still have quotas to fill. The circularity of it is this: you feel that lax enforcement creates some benefit. The threat of enforcement of an unjust law is enough to soothe the public, but lax enforcement allows for it to be engaged in with occasional crackdowns to make it appear like it is really being enforced, and creating a benefit. It isn't, however. So, having a law creates a benefit, even when we know it doesn't, and that benefit is worth keeping the law on the books. Another term for it is hypocrisy. Speeding laws are enforced to a far greater degree. While I don't support them, I do give the police credit for trying to maintain them vigorously. If they did the same for prostitution, I'd still oppose the law, but I'd credit them for trying to maintain it.