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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.
“It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.” Ronald Reagan
March 11, 2008
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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