Fisherisms
There's a neo-conservative writer here at USD named Chris Fisher. He writes generally provacative things, and people attack him (in print) for it. I disagree with him on what he says, but I'm taking a different approach, I'm going to begin writing a series of satirical articles based on Fisher's ideaology. I will polish them up, and try to get a couple done, before I try and get them put in the Volante. I will post them here, starting today, and try to get one done for every couple of days, and try to polish them up within a week of them getting done. I don't know how long this will last, the guy gives me a lot of material to work with. It's a satirists dream.
"Government should stay out of business
Naomi is a 12-year-old Californian girl who spends her days waiting for her mother to get done waiting tables at Denny’s in order to make less than minimum wage and barely scrape by. She sees her mom doing a lot of work for little money. Naomi wants to help her mom out, but can’t think of how. She dreams of one day being able to make enough money in a few hours as her mom does in a week. Her dream is to be a prostitute, but she is hindered in that because of the United States Government.
The government should stay out of business, and prostitution is one business that they keep sticking their noses in to. If it were merely illegal to have sex with someone for money, that would be simply putting a restriction on the service, like raising the price for a pack of cigarettes. But the government doesn’t stop there; they make it illegal to solicit sex, which is just plain wrong.
Where is the personal responsibility? If prostitutes want to walk around offering their bodies to the right pocketbook, then why should it be illegal? Surely, the services wouldn’t be purchased by a public that knows better. Prostitution is immoral, as it is sex outside of marriage, and as my favorite Volante columnist Chris Fisher has said, “capitalism turns man's immorality into productivity “.
The government putting restrictions on such things is a highly dangerous road to go down, and it needs to stop now. What comes next after prostitution? Will we enforce bans on cigarettes, because they harm people, what about guns? The government is putting an unnecessary restriction on a very profitable industry that, if allowed to be free, could one day employ many people. Did you hear that? Jobs! This is a viable commodity, and it’s time that the U.S. government recognized it.
If you are against prostitution, then you are against free-market capitalism. Sure, it could be argued that prostitution takes advantage of young girls, but if they wanted to go somewhere else for a job, they could. There are many opportunities out there, such as the business world. Which brings up another point that Chris Fisher brilliantly addressed in a previous article, where he said that business people should have “the freedom of an individual to discriminate for legitimate, as well as illegitimate, reasons”, this is an incredibly astute point, but it doesn’t fare well for the would-be prostitute convert. As we’ve seen in the past, when businesses have the freedom to discriminate, female workers have gotten fewer jobs, and less money, and even if it’s a male worker, who’s going to hire a former prostitute?
I guess they’ll have to look elsewhere, but why should they? The market is giving the price for their goods, which makes it practically their duty to give a market with such high demand a quality product. I’ll close with yet another Chris Fisher point, “People take these jobs because their next best option is just that.” Naomi’s next best option is prostitution, and the government should allow it."
"Government should stay out of business
Naomi is a 12-year-old Californian girl who spends her days waiting for her mother to get done waiting tables at Denny’s in order to make less than minimum wage and barely scrape by. She sees her mom doing a lot of work for little money. Naomi wants to help her mom out, but can’t think of how. She dreams of one day being able to make enough money in a few hours as her mom does in a week. Her dream is to be a prostitute, but she is hindered in that because of the United States Government.
The government should stay out of business, and prostitution is one business that they keep sticking their noses in to. If it were merely illegal to have sex with someone for money, that would be simply putting a restriction on the service, like raising the price for a pack of cigarettes. But the government doesn’t stop there; they make it illegal to solicit sex, which is just plain wrong.
Where is the personal responsibility? If prostitutes want to walk around offering their bodies to the right pocketbook, then why should it be illegal? Surely, the services wouldn’t be purchased by a public that knows better. Prostitution is immoral, as it is sex outside of marriage, and as my favorite Volante columnist Chris Fisher has said, “capitalism turns man's immorality into productivity “.
The government putting restrictions on such things is a highly dangerous road to go down, and it needs to stop now. What comes next after prostitution? Will we enforce bans on cigarettes, because they harm people, what about guns? The government is putting an unnecessary restriction on a very profitable industry that, if allowed to be free, could one day employ many people. Did you hear that? Jobs! This is a viable commodity, and it’s time that the U.S. government recognized it.
If you are against prostitution, then you are against free-market capitalism. Sure, it could be argued that prostitution takes advantage of young girls, but if they wanted to go somewhere else for a job, they could. There are many opportunities out there, such as the business world. Which brings up another point that Chris Fisher brilliantly addressed in a previous article, where he said that business people should have “the freedom of an individual to discriminate for legitimate, as well as illegitimate, reasons”, this is an incredibly astute point, but it doesn’t fare well for the would-be prostitute convert. As we’ve seen in the past, when businesses have the freedom to discriminate, female workers have gotten fewer jobs, and less money, and even if it’s a male worker, who’s going to hire a former prostitute?
I guess they’ll have to look elsewhere, but why should they? The market is giving the price for their goods, which makes it practically their duty to give a market with such high demand a quality product. I’ll close with yet another Chris Fisher point, “People take these jobs because their next best option is just that.” Naomi’s next best option is prostitution, and the government should allow it."
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