Corner Cases Example

[andrewducker]

Here's a perfect one:
1)German employment law states that if you've been unemployed for over a year then you must take any job offered to you.
2)In a bid to cut down on the trade in women and other mistreatment of prostitutes, Germany has legalised brothels.

Can you guess what the end result of this is?

Read about it here.

I'm looking forward to reading your responses to this one :->

Comments

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Most people haven't done sex work, so I'm not sure why my opinion of it should be any less valid than the opinions of 10 million people who also haven't done sex work.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Your opinion should be less valid because you are making statements about how it would not be all that bad for people, when there is massive evidence of the damage done to people involved in the sexual trafficking industry, and when it flies in the face of what the majority of people believe, and indeed know to be true. I have never had my head stuck in a vice, but I know that such a thing would be pretty bad - how do I know this? Well one way is that I've experienced similar bad things in my life and its easy and obvious to extrapolate out.

Perhaps you would have no problem working in the sex industry, fair enough - but that is not the case for the majority of people.

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? Can you point me to the studies that show how people working in the sex industry in a country where the industry is legal are less psychologically healthy than the average?

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see that too.

In fact, I think I'm with catamorphism all the way through (barring the rape/power remark).

Personally, I'd probably rather work in a legal brothel than a fish factory (which I have done) or for a few of my former employers.

Any crap job can be very psychologically damaging, (though no-one takes you seriously if it's well-paid, indoors and not physically dangerous). You can get to the point of wanting to (and sometimes do) start crying in sheer misery as you get up to the office door. Of course in that situation, what you do is get another job.

I'm not sure I have any sympathy for someone so useless as to not be able to get any other job than prostitution, but who nevertheless objects to the idea.

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to see your and catamorphism's point here, but I gotta object to that last paragraph. In a bad job market, it is not only "useless" people who have a hard time getting jobs.