I don't care what "most men" would or wouldn't want to marry, nor is it germane to any point I've made.
You keep appealing to Japanese culture as an explanation for the characterization of that mob character. I'm arguing that it's a connection that doesn't make sense-- the protagonist is literally Japanese and doesn't make that argument. It's not even a sentiment that's exclusive to Japan, and there's no reason why it would be exclusive to it.
I think we've both spent more than enough time splitting this particular hair.
You're the only one of us that had to play the "technically" game when you could have just dropped it as a flubbed point-- don't talk about hairsplitting with me.
Hospitals were a huge disease vector--
Why are you trying to compare an institution that exists for the express purpose of
healing disease that for a time unwittingly spread it, with an institution where the spread of disease
isn't antithetical to its nature and is often regarded as a secondary consequence?
I'm actually flabbergasted, right now. Where did this come from? Hospitals, for all their problems, provide substantially greater and more positive value to society than prostitution, and always did.
Crime exists. This doesn't prove that efforts to mitigate crime are useless. Similarly, the recruitment of trafficking victims within the Netherlands (to whatever extent this happens) doesn't suggest that decriminalization, licensing and regulation don't work.
Neither demonstrated not agreed upon.
We both linked to the same material about human trafficking in the Netherlands-- a country that explicitly legalized and regulates prostitution. You're insisting that regulating it mitigates trafficking (or at least that we haven't proved it doesn't), but not only does the industry there benefit from trafficking from without, trafficking also
still takes place
from within.
Your first response option is to compare trafficking statistics before and after its legalization (we'll focus on explicit legalization, since it was the case that they were on-and-off about abiding prostitution for centuries before (until 2000) deciding to not touch it unless it "disturbed the social order"). I can't quite get you that, myself, but I'm not plumb out of evidence to consider: since its proper legalization in 2000,
officials have been complaining about the growing violence in the industry, with some attributing it to illegal immigration.
Former prostitutes that became Labour Party councilors noted a significant intersection between prostitution and organized crime. The Amsterdam government actually cracked down on brothels because of this; at some point,
Amsterdam closed down half its licensed brothels because of suspected criminal activity.
Your second response option is to assert without evidence that it "would have been worse" if it was straightforwardly illegal. Meanwhile, it's the case that the legal industry benefits from the actions of the illegal industry-- that, or the existence of the legal industry hasn't obviated the illegal industry, which is why the latter still exists and operates within the country.
As demonstrated, both are true. And to undermine your second response option,
longtime prostitutes have argued that the legalization in 2000 made the industry
worse, attributing this worsening to foreigner organized criminals figuring that they have a degree of legal cover because of the legalization of the institution. And expecting prostitutes to pay their taxes just made them resort to methods to avoid taxation, so their government doesn't even get to waste their money.
It's because of the former explanation (the legal benefits from the illegal) that I reckoned that the legal industry is effectively a front (however unwitting) for the illegal industry, that in fact
confounds efforts to mitigate human sex trafficking while continuing to indirectly justify it through its own continued operation.
That's why they both still exist in that area, and it's why the illegal still operates at a concerning level.
I think if they don't make her a yandere--
90/10 she's a yandere. I've seen the author's catalogue and even read most of one of his WNs-- yandere is his thing.
