If bald eagles were capable of willfully selling their own feathers you'd have a point and your analogy would be apt.

The biggest hazards to a prostitute is legal repercussion and the secondary effects of that, like having no legal recourse after being abused. That's not "incidentally capturing some distinguishable conduct", the vast majority of dangers associated with this industry are artificially created by unjust laws directly driven by social taboo of a few.

Likewise your comment is only valid so long as all participants are willing and voluntary. Legalization doesn’t not address that concern.

It does, as anyone forced into prostitution without consent could then seek standard legal remedies for things like kidnapping/battery/coercion/etc. So long as it remains illegal, that's basically impossible.

So by that logic legalizing child pornography and child prostitution would eliminate the harms associated with those. I am going to disagree with that, not only because its baseless, but also because its absurd.

Lol "adults transacting a mutually agreed exchange should not be prohibited by law" "oh so you want to rape little babies then?" Come on man get fucking real. You're being obviously disingenuous. I can tell by the word hoops you're jumping through that you know there's no logic to your argument, you're deliberately using words like "eliminate harms associated with those" to gloss over the fact that the harms are different and have different causes. You have no argument along this line, and you know it, and making arguments you know don't hold up is banal and lowly.

Children are not adults and so cannot sexually consent is the basis of most laws that prevent that.

Agreed. Legalization is not a cure all.

Do you think prostitution is easier to prosecute than kidnapping?

It seems like kidnapping would be a far easier to prosecute than prostitution.

Also how many kidnapped individuals are we finding in random prostitution stings?

False equivalence. Unless you want nasty old feathers it's impossible to obtain them without killing the Eagle, but there is sex work without trafficking.

>it's impossible to obtain them without killing the Eagle

I find Eagle feathers pretty regularly in the area around where i live. A bunch of them nest across the street and there's another nest in the back of the yard in an old tree that's been used every year for years now. Some are old and nasty, most are pretty fresh though.

Then it probably should in fact be legal to sell them.

Only because it is illegal. Eagles die of natural causes. You still aren't allowed to collect those feathers.

"We should ban hunting, because it's very hard to prosecute poaching after the product has entered the st[r]eam of commerce" wonder how well that would go over here in the US. And yet it's perfectly good logic when it agrees with the decisions you've already made.

Actually, it is legal precedent. Game wardens are the only law enforcement officers in the US that do not require search warrants because in their line of work everything is an exigency exception to the 4th amendment.

It's not nearly that simple. That's also not a ban on a downstream activity, like a ban on prostitution is.

If selling bald eagle feathers is legal, the incentive to kill one is bigger. Now unless you’re caught in the act of killing a bald eagle, there’s nothing they can do.

You're just kind of ignoring Rayiner's argument at this point. We already know that there are people who believe in principle that this stuff shouldn't be prosecuted at all. What's interesting is an argument that manages to engage with what Rayiner is saying; if you can't do that, you might as well just post at the top of the thread instead.

I did that already in my first reply, but the "if you're not caught in the act it's unenforceable" red herring popped up.

I fail to see how that’s a red herring.