Re: Mind's Eye Re: Hookers and Blow

20% of the women in the London of the 1700s were supposedly prostitutes.  Visiting Germans complained many were as young as nine.  Clearly, under the new rules our economy has collapsed.  I've only just got up from the floor after Molly's one-liner.

On Sunday, December 28, 2014 2:56:23 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:

Actually it sounds like politicians grasping at straws to have an improving economy.

The slippy slope of desperation.

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لا القتل، والاغتصاب أو استعباد الآخرين
Do not murder,  rape or enslave others

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From: Molly <mollyb363@gmail.com>
To: minds-eye@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 3:41 PM
Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Hookers and Blow

That we make money in any way on people's addictions is a puzzle to me, whether gambling, drinking, drugs, sex, food.  As the list goes on, we see that people can be addicted to so many of the basic things, it is hard to have commerce and not feed them. My mother in law had a shopping addiction, or was that a symptom of OCD.  Morality is a slippery slope and as individually defined as truth.
On Sunday, December 28, 2014 6:42:04 AM UTC-5, archytas wrote:

Not the most cunning plan I have seen on the economic front - turning East Manchester into a gambling zone to 'bring jobs' was as perverse and probably much the same thing.  The madness is clear - scrutiny of why we can't see the farce might be the rational response.

On Saturday, 27 December 2014 21:07:15 UTC, Molly wrote:

constant self examination is advised.

On Saturday, December 27, 2014 3:35:54 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote:

Our economies are now recovering thanks to the inclusion of crime in our official statistics.  Crime has long been estimated at 2.5% of our GDP - though in fact it is much higher.  In Britain we spend more on hookers and blow (0.87%) than beer and wine, though the European powerhouse is Germany at 2.5% - vorsprung dorch vice.  One suspects the group's contribution to this economic growth engine is lamentably low.  Indeed.my own contribution has been entirely negative over the years.

Should we be reexamining our morality in response?

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