[UK]:do the religiously righteous have the right to dictate the laws on the legality prostitution & euthanasia

Question

if the prevalence of prostitutes is inevitable and people wanting the right to choose the day of their passing, is a feeling growing in strength amongst the general population......
why should the law of the land on these two topics, be swayed or warped by the BELIEFS that the religious among us hold about marriage&sex...and about the part an imaginary being did/or didnt play in our [supposed] creation, and therefore about our right to make our own decisions about the ending of our lives?

do the religiously righteous have the right to make the non religious among us suffer--
[ deteriorating sexual health in the case of prostitutes driven underground...and pain&loss of dignity in the case of those who are terminally ill or whose quality of life is no longer acceptable to them] just so their prejudices and opinions can be upheld and receive the validation of the law?

Answer 1

The majority opinion of one's elected representatives determine what becomes law. As long as the majority opinion is colored by religious beliefs that hold that prostitution is imoral, therefore illegal, and that controling one's own end is suicide, and therefore illegal, the laws will be what they are. The true ultimate test for ANY law, however, is to have a trial based on a judicial ruling made ON such a law tried in the Supreme Court, where it's constitutionality can be weighed. While not foolproof, it does work.

Answer 2

if the prevalence of prostitutes is inevitable and people wanting the right to choose the day of their passing, is a feeling growing in strength amongst the general population......
why should the law of the land on these two topics, be swayed or warped by the BELIEFS that the religious among us hold about marriage&sex...and about the part an imaginary being did/or didnt play in our [supposed] creation, and therefore about our right to make our own decisions about the ending of our lives?

do the religiously righteous have the right to make the non religious among us suffer--
[ deteriorating sexual health in the case of prostitutes driven underground...and pain&loss of dignity in the case of those who are terminally ill or whose quality of life is no longer acceptable to them] just so their prejudices and opinions can be upheld and receive the validation of the law?

Answer 3

Carnal desire is a behavioural tendency that requires cure rather than indulgence, hence prostitution tackles a sympton rather than the cure for the potential client.

Euthanasia is open to abuse by ill willed and morally bankrupt relatives who have much to gain by a person ending their life. Also is places undue pressure on an ill relative to endorse the onset of death rather than be a liability or weight upon their brethren.

There is very little contentiuosness about iether issue. In the absence of the brothel client wishing to cure over indulgence, the brothel will always trade. Brothels serve a purpose, in the same way as burger bars. Both are decidedly unhealthy and a unneccessary, but we alas live in a less than ideal society, each with his own axe to grind.

Answer 4

Laws are generally passed with the consideration of 'general will' or 'volonté générale', (Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-88). This is the standard format for such decision making rather than your incorrect assumption that religious/righteous people are hijacking our democratic model.

This method is most similar to socialism and influenced the French Revolution. It is assumed that laws are passed based on the common desires of the informed and unbiased citizens of that time.

The down side to this is that a large group of people can be denied legalisation of their proposals, but modern society works this way. It is not as harsh as a 'majority rules' mindset, as this is not always the case ie. civil rights bills etc. However, this method is the working model in most modern civilizations.

Answer 5

I am religious. Believe it or not, I have no problem with controlled, safe, clean prostitution. It's a choice made by to consenting adults.

Euthanasia is a different issue. It's far to easy to abuse. There is almost no scenario of checks and balances that will prevents it's abuse. As such, I'm against it. A doctors job is to keep people alive.

Answer 6

Prostitution is wrong, it is not just a case of woman selling their body's for sex but the fact they they get raped and abused as well as murdered as well, that is what people are against. Not to mention the poor wives whose husbands cannot control themselves and use these destitute woman for their own needs and pass on diseases to their wife's and as yet unborn kids.

I am not Religious at all.

As for Euthanasia i am all for it, i would not like to be in a position where i cannot decide whether i want to live or die and would appreciate someone making that decision for me should i be incapable of helping myself in any way. Should i not be able to think straight or should i be in such a bad and painful way that life is not worth living and there be no future for me. I agree and would like to see that legalised.

Answer 7

Everybody who is part of society has a right to say what the rules are - so in that they are part of society and citizens, yes

Most people support laws/vote for people based on their prejudices or what they read in the paper (or how someone looks) so why should the religious be damned for this?

Answer 8

Whatever - if they are in the majority, and have the power - YES.
What you are asking is it rational, logical, or even just. No, it isn't. Can we, as a minority do anything? Again, No. In Oklahoma, when I was a kid, the state was "Dry"--yet liquor flowed. The people where almost all fundamentalist Christians and on Sunday deplored alcohol, but somebody bought the booze. Even if you seem in the majority many people do one thing and say another. That doesn't mean they won't persecute and prosecute you. michael

Answer 9

Religion should have nothing at all to do with making laws, unfortunately it always seems to be poking its nose into politics and seems it always will.I can't wait for the day when a politician gets into power that has the balls to turn around and say sod the church (of all religions) and run the country like it should be run.

Answer 10

As long as there is breath in your body there is hope.

God wrote the laws. Only two religions: God and man. You've chosen man and what you permit increases. If you permit prostitution it will be in your face every where you go.
If you permit euthanasia, people who could have lived will be killed because of stupidity and it is God who gives life and God who takes life. You have no right to take your own life. You were created for God's pleasure and not your pleasure.
Revelation 4:11