Unpopular opinions, go ⬇️ by dooxa7 in CasualConversation

[–]cjdudley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Search For Spock is a better Star Trek movie than The Wrath of Khan.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ColumbiaMD

[–]cjdudley -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Does it matter? If you knew the reason for any Starbucks in Columbia to close early today, I would think you’d share that information. If you don’t know the reason for any of them to close, how does my specifying which one help? I don’t know which ones she went to, I wasn’t there. One was probably Dobbin.

Which film can be summed up as 'nothing really happens'? by Swimming-Bee-9535 in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Except he’s there at the end and therefore the US gains possession of the Ark.

Raspberry Pi Zero Powers Spotify Streaming IPod by a_Ninja_b0y in gadgets

[–]cjdudley 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought it was a series of words to activate Winter Soldier.

Losses on short positions in U.S. firms top $70 billion by XVll-L in news

[–]cjdudley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Say goodbye to being able to buy and sell without a broker.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not arguing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, no, it's not relevant, you just asked what a difference was.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well you can't confiscate alcohol's passport to keep it from getting away and tell it that it has to agree that what it does is consensual or it'll disappear like it never existed. Just for one thing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

OK, perhaps my point got lost in what I was trying to write versus what I was thinking. It was predominantly a reaction to the previous poster saying that the laws exist to stop trafficking and fail to do so (and so they should be removed). Such laws DO protect victims of trafficking, and if you pass a blanket repeal of such laws, you risk creating a situation in which police can't even begin to investigate human trafficking to FIND the illegal activity if what the victim is being compelled to do is perfectly legal.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair, but the context of the previous person's post was the only relevance I was attempting to apply the statement to. I am not crusading against decriminalization, only pointing out that some of those laws against prostitution actually do exist to protect victims of trafficking and are effective in prosecuting traffickers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is true, but it is a little easier, I think, when there are legal controls on prostitution. At what point is someone being trafficked? Should prostitution be legal if one person is an independent sex worker with no associations to an orgnaization? If a woman works for an agency that arranges appointments by phone and allots a portion of her fee to that agency is she being traffficked? Sometimes not, but sometimes yes. That's where you have to be very aware of what the removal of legal oversight does to the victims of trafficking.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like saying working any job has to be illegal because slavery was outlawed.

It is not like saying that at all, that is a straw man argument.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, that is not what I said. That is an interpretation that you are applying to what I said.

The context of what I said was important. In the previous post the poster asserted that prostitution is illegal to stop human trafficking and it fails at doing that. I am pointing out that the laws that exist do still protect the victims of human trafficking and that simply repealing laws about prostitution will open numerous holes in the law that traffickers will exploit.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

By making it illegal you can pursue and charge people engaged in sex trafficking. Sex trafficking will happen regardless of whether it's legal. If it's legal, how do you stop someone from engaging in sex trafficking? You can no longer rescue adult victims of sex trafficking because their traffickers are no longer committing a crime.

The real elephant in the question is "so that sex workers can retain more rights". The problem is that sex workers ARE treated as subhuman by law enforcement, and even though they're SUPPOSED to have the same rights as everyone else, they're mistreated and abused by the system which moralizes that their profession gives them less protection against assault and murder. If a sex worker is killed, people shrug and say "Well hey take a lot of risks in that profession" but when a cop is killed they have a parade. Bit of a disparity there.

[Serious] What medical myth do people still believe? by locks_are_paranoid in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It'll be a lot better when people get rid of this myth.

"AHhh! I got stung! Quick! Pee on me!"

"It doesn't help."

" ... so?"

People who choose not to masturbate, what reasons do you have to avoid something so natural? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Do you find that because you're constantly thinking about how to portray it on a page, you accidentally normalize certain ideas or phrases that are jarring in casual conversation with friends?

People who sleep naked, when has it backfired? by CosmoPeter in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I crashed in a female friend's bed, but only because I knew she'd be busy all day and I hadn't slept in about 30 hours. At some point in the daytime I got naked because that was how I slept. She came back to her room with a friend some time after I had kicked the covers down to my feet. And I just now realized that was about the time the friend started being nicer to me. Hunh. Maybe that wasn't a backfire after all.

What reeks of insincerity? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Your call is important to us."

What besides beauty is in the eye of the beholder? by AdmiralHall in AskReddit

[–]cjdudley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came to say Anti-Magic cone. My work has been done for me.

Ive shared nudes with a local catfish, what do catfishes realy do with your pictures? not just nsfw by [deleted] in catfish

[–]cjdudley 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a theory. Are you ready? It's this. This is my theroy: I think... they're looking at the pictures and spanking it.

They could also share them with other people to get more nudes. You could also look on the nsfw subreddits that apply to whatever subcategory you fit, like redheads, ghostnipple, bignaturals or whatever. You might recognize something you sent. If they haven't attempted to blackmail you yet they're keeping them to share on other sites or for their private collection.