NationStates Jolt Archive

What has the general public come to? I come back from my vacation to find that the UN has legalised prostitution. There are so many ways that that is wrong, and I cannot understand why anyone would vote for such a thing. Please, tell me there are some decent folk in the world that agree with me!

leave the UN then.

Edit: I do not support the proposal, and voted no on it.

There are at least those of us that agree that the UN isn't quite ready to start regulating the global sex trade, esspecially with so vague a proposal.

Zeta Ceti believes that the UN is not ready to regulate much of anything thus far due to the vagueness of 99% of the proposals. We weren't in the UN by the time the legalize prostitution proposal was voted on. However, if we were, we would have voted no due to the vagueness of the proposal and to the fact that we believe such a proposal should be voted by individual countries and not by the UN.
Zeta Ceti believes that thus far the UN has tried to overstep its boundaries between world law and country law.

We also believe that people should justify their beliefs with strong facts. Simply by saying, "There are so many ways that that is wrong, and I cannot understand why anyone would vote for such a thing. Please, tell me there are some decent folk in the world that agree with me!" does not give a good reason as to why we should or should not vote for a proposal. Give us a reason as to why prostitution is wrong? And don't say "because it's against my morals." Your morals may be as different as ours like night is to day. Try to give a convincing argument as to why I should think the way you do. Otherwise, we will tend to vote for the opposite cause, or not at all.

For the record, Zeta Ceti, there are ample arguments against the Legalise Prostitution resolution. If you look back a page or two, you'll see the overwhelming sentiment here in the Forums was 'Against'.

White Rose, if you can't make the game, you have no reasonable right to complain about how it was played. If you couldn't find a friendly nation to vote your nation's vote by proxy, then you should have located an opponent who agreed to sit out the vote with you. Whining about it afterwards serves no purpose other than to reopen an already exhausted topic.

OOC: Frisbeeteria, I do understand that there ARE ample and reasonably convincing arguments for both sides of any debate found on within the forums. I was just trying to imply, without being overly blunt, that people should post reasons to their thoughts that goes beyond a mere "because I said so" argument when posting their thoughts on the board. I feel that posting such a "because I said so" argument on the boards does not provide the type of communication that is so greatly needed between persons/countries within the UN. Such a boasting can also lead to people getting upset or offended and cause unneccessary problems between the persons involved.
I do not wish to attack or offend White Rose or yourself or anyone else who is reading this topic but merely make it be known that I am concerned with the type of communication that is found within the UN forums as well as through most of the proposals themselves.

And on a side note, I, personally, do not condone nor condemn prostitution, but rather realize that it is a problem that needs to be looked at on a basis other than morals- especially if it is being decided on by the world at large.

I'm also terribly sorry for any miscommunications that may have been placed in my last post.

Zeta Ceti, you just gave the hardest answer to any question: I don't know. We all need to say that more often.

Although I did it with a different nation of mine, I voted FOR that particular proposal. You want to know why? I have two main reasons.

1. If men and women want to sell their bodies to earn a living, that's their choice, and frankly, if it's legal, it's easier to regulate. It would make controlling the spread of diseases common among them and those who frequent them much more controllable, with regular checkups because they're not afraid to get checked out. Besides, it's been around so long, do you really think you can stop it now? Hell, in Japan a married man can have an extramarital affair without reprecussions, as long as it's for money and not love.

2. This is a game. Nothing more, nothing less. The reason you got such an overwhelming voice of nay-sayers is because they take this game waaaay to seriously. I mean, why do you CARE if the people of countries that DON'T REALLY EXIST can legally pay for a morally questionable service, seeing as the 'people' are a small bit of data that doesn't even have SENTIENCE, let alone free will or the urge to copulate. I mean, c'mon people. Besides, if so many people were opposed, why the hell did the thing PASS in the first place?