I think we do provided we make coercion illegal and prosecute properly. "Let's make X illegal so no-one can feel pressured into X' is generally illiberal.https://twitter.com/kareem_sabri/status/960176316208185345 …
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Good q. I’m not anti any particular job, certainly some women choose to do and enjoy sex work. I’m anti conditions that cause a human to have no options but that job. It may be necessary, but I think it’s a social problem. Liberalism requires the conditions to make choices, no?
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To a certain extent. People certainly have to be able to choose from the options that are there. I'm not sure liberalism requires us to make other options ppl will enjoy & there will always be unpleasant jobs that need doing.
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I’m not sure either. I don’t think it’s solvable, and disparity in options will always be reality. But we can recognize an oppressive form of lack of options (poverty etc.) that undermines liberalism and rectify it with a social safety net. Equality of opportunity is the aim, no?
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Well, yes, this is a different matter.
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Seems related to the sex work question, but maybe I misunderstood where you were going with that.
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It has gone way off hijabs, hasn't it? Sex work and hijabs are often raised together or separately as things that should be banned to ensure that no-one is coerced into them.
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Got it. I wouldn’t ban either, and I don’t think they’re all that similar. One is economic and other is cultural. Hence we got into poverty, which drives sex work at bottom end (or drugs). Hijab’s circumstances of coercion very different. /1
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It’s a hard problem, and the line is blurry. But it seems difficult to claim liberalism is for choice in the abstract and ignore the circumstances in which the choice is made, or what defines a truly free choice. There’s more coercive forces than a tyrannical government.
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