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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] caladri.livejournal.com 2005-02-01 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say it's social conditioning that "personal space" is to be controlled and is incredibly private and sensitive and must be pure, whereas your mind space, self-confidence, feelings of worth as a human being, are all free to be shat down the toilet. A teacher who pats you on the ass will get in a lot more trouble than a teacher who tells you to be quiet until you have something sensible to say. Which is likely to be a more genuinely damaging case, social concerns aside?

I have more nightmares about my ex-boss wreaking havoc on my life than about people who've taken control of my decisions, body, etc., away from me, or anything else along those lines. I have more personal fear of people making my life miserable through clever use of slander, libel and conspiracy than I have fear of rape or murder or ...

I want to live in a country where I can stay on the dole forever because I'm a Xenophobe.