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		balfirevic on Nov 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japanese hotel room costs $1 a night, but you have... > It’s exactly the same argument for laws against the most vulnerable types of sex work, or selling body organs donated by the living. So, invalid? Selling organs is such a curious example because people present it thinking it's a completely clear-cut case. But it's nowhere close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_trade#Ethical_debate_for... https://www.npr.org/2008/05/21/90632108/should-we-legalize-t... Please note that you don't have to be persuaded that organ trade can be good, just understand that it's very far from obviously and always being bad.

gorgoiler on Nov 24, 2019 [–]

Thank you for the counter-point. I can see how it’s easy to come from the view that it is always bad. It certainly puts Hotel Voyeur into perspective, as an issue for society to spend its finite energy on tackling.

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