Monday, March 10, 2008

Jonah Goldberg on the Spitzer case


http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzljNGYyOWUwYTY1NjEwMzk3MGY2ODljNzE4NDM3OTk=

Spitzer's been caught. Maybe he was caught "unfairly" in the sense that the law against his behavior is asinine. But fair ain't got much to do with it.

Again, I can sympathize with a utilitarian argument for legalized prostitution — even if I don't subscribe to that view. But I can't subscribe to the view that just because prostitution should be legal that therefore society has to say not only is prostitution morally acceptable but that married men visiting hookers is just fine too.

This is one area where I most profoundly disagree with cultural libertarians. The more the state gets out of the business of policing the sin, the more the rest of the society needs to get into the business of condemning it.

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