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"forced distribution" is the same thing.


It’s not the same. Kidnapping is an illegal act but not a form of slavery while human trafficking is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_to_Prevent,_Suppres...


You can't traffick humans without kidnapping them and holding them against their will. The whole point is we already have laws on the books to prevent that regardless of whether prostitution is legal or not.


In the case of people most jurisdictions want more severe laws in place than possession of stole goods against those people who are holding others against their will but did not kidnap them, as in they received the victims from others who may or may not have taken them by force.


aggravated kidnapping in the US often gets 20 years in jail.

median sentence for murder is 13 years.

I can imagine you might think the sentence would be lighter but there's nothing preventing heavy sentencing for kidnapping.

edit: holding a human captive even if you aren't the original captor is still kidnapping so that detail doesn't really change anything


This is not important. That sort of slavery is easy to deam legal without getting into what the forced work is.

Sex work = trafficking is, best case, a misplaced utopianism that makes things worse here and now, and often a far worse patronizing moralistic sexism.


That is not what I said.




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