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

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I am female and I don't find the concept of sex for pay (or else starve) necessarily abhorrent any more than I find the concept of working in any number of possibly vaugely unpleasant or menial jobs abhorrent.

I've sold timeshares, done tele-sales, worked in fish factories, and on production lines for cleaning chemicals (including PCBs, Yum, bet that did me good!). I've worked for a paranoid, control-freak, psychological bully who beat up his girlfriend (also an employee). That was all pretty nasty. I haven't worked in the sex industry, but in a legalised setting I'd try that before any of the above!

Yes, other people may have different opinions. Some people can work on a till or production line or laying bricks or being an accountant their whole life and not feel hard done by, where I certainly would be insanely miserable.

People vary - you seem to be making pretty sweeping statements that don't ( to me) seem to be taking this into account.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

I would fight to protect the right of women to work in the sex industry if they want to do so, I'm no tsaying that the sex industry is universally bad - I just think that the majority of women do not want to work in that industry and that they shouldn't be forced or coerced into doing so.