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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2005-01-31 08:55 pm

Corner Cases Example

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 :->

[identity profile] robhu.livejournal.com 2005-01-31 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
There is a recognition that the consequence of sex industry work would have a very bad psychoogical consequence for most people, but for some people it is ok. As the overwhelming majority would be severely damaged by it you do not make it mandatory. If someone is not going to be affected by it then they can choose to go into that industry, but because there is an obvious universal recognition that this kind of work would be very damaging to the majority of people we have this big uproar which will ultimately end in a sane law being introduced.

I think I'm going to leave this conversation as it is as the old saying "Don't feed the trolls" comes to mind.