I don't really understand the argument that laws against sex work are justified if they save even a few victims of trafficking, like locking tons of innocent people up in jail is somehow better
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I don't know how it would save trafficking lives anyway, since an illegal market would no longer exist to require trafficking if it were legalized.
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What makes it worse is that the time and attention paid to sex workers who are not be victimized takes away from the ones who are and actually need help. Time is a zero sum game.
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The ends justify the means is a much used conservative position, and it is completely illogical.
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Laws against trafficking are always conflated with laws against sex work because people can't see a way to separate consensual sex work from non consensual sex work. This is a challenge but can be managed. Moral and religious arguments make the whole thing more complicated
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Such laws would, in fact, increase trafficking by creating a void normally filled by legal and consenting sex workers. The entire concept is short sighted and narrow minded.
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People dont think rationally on most issues. Just yell about banning whatever they feel is gross. Prohibition has an abysmal track record across many cases, but it keeps on rolling
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They can even use sex workers to help trap and jail traffickers if done correctly
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the whole of the "justice" system is ridiculous and keeps people accused of all kinds of crimes both violent and non-violent who haven't even gone to trial in jail for absurd amounts of time because they could be guilty/ a flight risk. Locking up innocent people is our M.O.