Goanet next meets in Goa: January 7, 4 pm (meeting point: Kala Academy canteen). Goanet founder Herman Carneiro will be there. See you there! ------------------------------
IMO, opinions better come with a name attached. anonymous opinion is irresponsible. we could end up with "kadli jib, layli talleak". heck, even "bharati" bernardo sticks his name to his opinions! agnelo > --__--__-- > > Message: 17 > Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:55:33 +0530 > From: Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Goanet]Re: Let's have some humanity here > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The e-mail below was sent to me by a female > correspondent of mine. She has > two children in their twenties. She does not wish to > be identified. > > > -------------- quote -------- > > Gosh! That someone actually dares to write crap like > this - flush them out! > > Prostitution is the world's oldest profession and > much as we may all want > to be neighbours of the ladies, we must accept that > in the absence of a > social security system which puts food in their > mouths (and their > children/parents, whatever) a woman will sell her > body - as I a sure a man > would too. After all, what cost morality when you > are dying of hunger? the dogma of fatalism or predestined karma argues that a woman has to prostitute herself out of economic necessity. wrong argument. please note the vast majority of poor women (and men) who work as ayahs, hawkers, farmers, servants etc. > Better still is to take a much broader and humane > approach - LEGALISE > prostitution. Cover the prostitutes under unions, > medical > protection/insurance schemes. Educate them about the > dangers of their > profession and within that create as `safe' a > working place as possible - > free from the exploitation of pimps and other scum > that thrive on those who > have to sell their bodies. your solution is a positive encouragement of bums. if you reward bums, you end up producing more bums. it is just as 'humane' to shut down prostitution or to manage it with a reward and punishment policy. both the demand and supply ends need to be controlled. > I think, in this case, Ms Periera is more worried > about straying > husband/sons/brothers and seems to have forgotten > some very basic > principles - not just of Christianity but of simple > humanity. christian socialism like communism is innately stupid. The worry of straying husband/sons/brothers is reality, responses hard wired into the brain of a woman necessary for her own success. to despise this behavior is suicidal. moral principles are a fashion of the times, they change with time. we should seek answers in science, in biology, in human behavior. not the bible, nor fashionable dogma. > > ------- unquote ---- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
