Except that didn't happen. The law passed but TERB is still here and going strong.Remember the conservatives on this Board argued voraciously in favour of the previous Conservative Government who wanted to make Sex with Escorts illegal in their 2015 Platform:
Peter MacKay insists new prostitution bill will protect sex workers
Peter MacKay insists new prostitution bill will protect sex workers
Until the sex trade in Canada can be eliminated, federal laws should provide safer working conditions for sex workers, Justice Minister Peter MacKay said Tuesday.www.ctvnews.ca
So Boards like TERB would have been shut down.......... hypocrisy at its peak!!
I suppose in the end all generalities - and the labels we use to diminish people so we can keep them in a narrow little box - are problematic. But hypocrisy? ...that's somewhere on a continuum between laughable and despicable.
if they’re religious, social conservatives then yes. If they’re just fiscal conservatives then no.
Non-conservatives and liberals who accept JC as their personal
saviour are exempted, I suppose.
we’re talking about conservatives, so spare me the whataboutism.
Hypocrisy is part of conservatism. Heck the party used to be called the Progressive Conservatives. How much more contradictory can you get?
Have you ever wondered why it is terb.cc and not terb.ca?
Thankfully The Liberals won the election as Peter Mckay promised to enforce the Law to the fullest extent. Hence purchasing sex would have been illegal!!
Yes, but not enforced as The Ladies are still openly advertising their services. That is what Mckay wanted to enforce!!
Its hypocritical for a certain sector of Conservatives - the hard core bible thumpers that judge other's faults based on scripture.
Other than that meh.
Other than that meh.
“Conservative” in what way? I try to live my life by analyzing my positions. I am fiscally conservative, support Israel and thing much progressivism is nonsense. But I think people should do with their bodies as they see fit, and assuming they are not being coerced, should be able to sell sexual interactions. People model. People are hired for physical work. People should be able to sell sexual intimacy.
Isn't it that the selling is legal but the buying is illegal?
Nobody is immune to hypocrisy
The sooner you stop deluding yourselves that you are and have been hypocrites at many points in your lives, probably even today at least 10 times, the sooner you can make a concerted effort to avoid being one.
It is very easy to notice it in others and chastise them for it, it is much harder to see it in yourself, and in truth that is the best way to avoid being one
There’s nothing wrong with putting people in boxes unless you hope to denounce the very idea of concepts themselves and I don’t think that is a very desirable outcome. Do you? What matters is that your concepts/boxes/definitions/generalization are rigorous and well-formed.
Hypocrisy is a huge danger I agree but the best way you help that problem is focusing on yourself. It’s okay to try show others the way they are hypocrites, but it’s categorically not okay to point it out in others above recognizing it in yourself.
Here is some unsolicited, and probably unwelcome, but I think, useful moral advice: everytime you see someone doing something against their proclaimed morals and feel indignant and like they are deserving of negative judgement and you want to call them hypocrites (which they may very well be). Do that if you like, but also stop and turn that judgement upon yourself.
There are many positive outcomes when you do that.
1. What you will find, if you are being honest with yourself, that you will gain insight about their humanity (both liberals and conservatives value this alike, even though many of you would like to deny that)
2. You will start to ACTUALLY see yourself as a morally fallible human who is hypocritical (by accident) all the time. You’ll forgive yourself, hopefully, and by extension can forgive others for it too. Rather than assuming humans are fundamentally stupid and evil (except for you ofc)
3. Once you stop blaming others for the foibles you are now forced to admit that you yourself possess regularly, you will see that you are making the world a better place by holding yourself morally accountable rather than screeching at others for their errors. It is much easier to change yourself and hold yourself accountable. Only to yourself. First and foremost.
4. If you are able from here to recognize that self- accountability and personal moral agency is a foundation of proper conservative values (I do not say all conservatives possess it) — you will see the reason the grounds conservative and even the crazy
Friedman & Freedom people that you so despise have. You will see you actually on many levels agree with them and that they have morally sound foundations. In principle. Even if you end up somewhere else politically.
5. You will stop calling people stupid because they disagree with your moral intuitions and then… you will be the tolerant liberals you hope to be, and I wish you the best of luck in those endeavours. So far in the history of humanity it has caused more genocides than most of you are able to count.
Then…DUNDUNDUN
You will have probably reduced your hypocrisy by at least 25% — I would say more.
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