U.S. warns Germany on World Cup sex workers

[jimmie]

Jimmie, I moved your thread here to hopefully remove the politics from it so people can just address your ethical question.

Ok.

Thanks for the consideration.

 

[Danger]

Good move, LYN, but I suspect that the politics can't be removed. Prostitution has never been an ethical issue; it's purely a matter of morality, which is determined by religious/political indoctrination.

 

[kyleb]

Really? The question was: why doesn't the U.S. make more moral suggestions on various other harmful and dehumanizing topics, as well as adhere to its all of its own suggestions, so as to truly be the moral authority it projects itself to be?

If the answer is obvious, please share it with us.

Like I said, replace "prostitution" with "human trafficking" and your question is:

why doesn't the U.S. make more moral suggestions on various other harmful and dehumanizing topics (like human trafficking), as well as adhere to its all of its own suggestions, so as to truly be the moral authority it projects itself to be?

The answer being; we do. Well, the "adhere" bit can be contested to various degrees depending on the specific issue, but we do make efforts against human trafficking and the like and we offer plenty of suggestions on such matters as well. As for moral authority, again, the standing up against such things as inarguably wrong as human trafficking is the authority in itself.

 

[J77]

Going back to the thread title...

If it's about the US imposing it's moral views on European policy.

I'm not sure if many Europeans care what the US think these days. Certainly when I read a story like this, ie. on the sex workers and the WC, it amuses me. I shouldn't really brush over the story but beacuse of GWB, stories that come out of the US don't hold much credibility for me any more. It's a generalistion I shouldn't make but it seems to be at the fore these days.