Quote Of The Day
by Doug MataconisA commenter at Megan McArdle’s blog on the prostitution angle of the Elliot Spitzer story:
Why is it illegal to sell, what it is perfectly legal to give away ;-)?
Excellent question.
“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.” Milton Friedman
A commenter at Megan McArdle’s blog on the prostitution angle of the Elliot Spitzer story:
Why is it illegal to sell, what it is perfectly legal to give away ;-)?
Excellent question.
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You mean like kidneys?
Comment by KipEsquire — March 11, 2008 @ 1:09 pmOr, as one hard-core libertarian wag put it: prostitution is a combination of sex and free enterprise. Which one of those are you opposed to? :-)
Comment by Doh-San — March 11, 2008 @ 4:41 pmKip,
Sure. Why can’t you sell a kidney? As long as it’s your own, of course… You don’t have permission to sell MY kidney, which is what the socialists and politicians would expect to do!
Comment by Brad Warbiany — March 12, 2008 @ 9:03 am