Slavery and theft harm others, so they are not relevant here. Age limits would be the most relevant. We have age limits on certain things because we believe that regardless of whether they want to, underage people deciding to do those things is usually not in their best interest. Similarly, bans on sex for rent and kidney sale could be justified by the belief that regardless of whether they want to, people doing these things is usually not in their best interest. However, this is somewhat hard to back up: It’s pretty unclear whether prostitution or homelessness is worse, and it’s easy to think of situations where selling a kidney definitely would be worth it (like the one given in the post).
I don’t want to live in a world where women have to prostitute themselves to afford rent.
I don’t want to live in that world either, but banning sex for rent doesn’t resolve the issue. It just means we’ve gone from a world where women have to prostitute themselves to afford rent to a world where women just can’t afford rent, period.
Have them be homeless until the homelessness situation becomes severe enough that we resolve it. Otherwise, IMO, we are just boiling the frog. There will be no protests, no riots, because selling our kidneys and having sex for rent is just enough for us to get by.
You don’t think having to sell your kidneys and have sex for rent to get by is bad enough to get people to protest/riot?
Also, it seems like you’ve implicitly changed your position here. Previously, you said that when someone sells a kidney/trades sex for rent it would usually not be in their best interest, and that those options would usually only be taken under the influence of addiction or mental illness. Now, when you say that people would do those things “to get by” it sounds like you’re implying that these are rational choices that would be in peoples’ best interest given the bad situation, and would be taken by ordinary people. Which of these do you agree with?
Slavery and theft harm others, so they are not relevant here. Age limits would be the most relevant. We have age limits on certain things because we believe that regardless of whether they want to, underage people deciding to do those things is usually not in their best interest. Similarly, bans on sex for rent and kidney sale could be justified by the belief that regardless of whether they want to, people doing these things is usually not in their best interest. However, this is somewhat hard to back up: It’s pretty unclear whether prostitution or homelessness is worse, and it’s easy to think of situations where selling a kidney definitely would be worth it (like the one given in the post).
I don’t want to live in that world either, but banning sex for rent doesn’t resolve the issue. It just means we’ve gone from a world where women have to prostitute themselves to afford rent to a world where women just can’t afford rent, period.What I said here is wrong, see this comment
You don’t think having to sell your kidneys and have sex for rent to get by is bad enough to get people to protest/riot?
Also, it seems like you’ve implicitly changed your position here. Previously, you said that when someone sells a kidney/trades sex for rent it would usually not be in their best interest, and that those options would usually only be taken under the influence of addiction or mental illness. Now, when you say that people would do those things “to get by” it sounds like you’re implying that these are rational choices that would be in peoples’ best interest given the bad situation, and would be taken by ordinary people. Which of these do you agree with?