Aabceef wrote:
Giving such great amount of power to the nations to decide what laws to implement would defeat the whole point of this resolution. You can give the nations full autonomy while at the same time setting rights that they can't infringe, there has to be a balance and I've done more than enough to provide for that. Giving the nations full power to determine which regulations are necessary would not only create an optionality problem but it would also create a race to the bottom to see who can deregulate the sex trade more so as to bring in all the business at the expense of the sex workers.
The question of the legality of "sex work" should be left to the individual nations. The focus of this legislation should be to protect those people who have chosen to legally work in the "sex industry" and therefore set a minimum bar of protection and regulation. If nations chose to "race to the bottom" this legislation should set the bar low enough to satisfy all governments but high enough that "sex workers" are protect. I see no contradiction in that philosophy.
The humble representative from the Kingdom of Manticore Reborn yields the floor.
Respectfully,
Hamish Alexander, Eighteenth Earl of White Haven
