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Old 11-05-2006, 13:25   #26
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Originally Posted by haku
Gangs and mafias are criminal organizations and they will stay criminal organizations, you can legalize whatever you want and that won't change anything to their criminal activities.
Well, there are several examples that actually states that if you legalize something that ONLY a criminal organization are dealing with, and there are businesses that will do these things in a secure and proper way, then yes, the criminal activites on that field will go away. Also because a business will have to conquer with the former criminal prices in the beginning. You will get rid of much of the (if not the whole) problem.

There is a "ranch" in Nevada, US, with a legal business of prostitutes. They are employees and work on hours. They check in when they get to work, and strict rules about hygeene and safety are good for the ladies - as they can now go to the police if they get raped while being a prostitute, they have easy access to the equipment and healthcare needed to prevent sexual transfered deseases (as they also get health insurance along with their work aso), and they have working conditions you and me could only dream about.

Girls who choose prostitution would of course choose this alternative before the street. Cause this is a huge selling industry with alot of possibilities. They won't have a problem to get work, as legalization would probably let it grow to new heights. And that's actually good.
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Originally Posted by haku
If you legalize some of the gangs/mafias activities, that won't make their members become honest workers earning an average living from it. If an activity is legal, it's no longer extremely profitable and they will abandon that activity to switch to other illegal activities where they can make loads of money.
No, that's right, but it will stop them from recruiting new poeple on that field. That's VERY important... when the different sources for recruiting are taken away from the criminal organizations they will suffer a great deal. What you will be left with are the minor criminals who do common criminal stuff - you'll never get rid of them ... but the really big organizations; if you take away their daily income and their source of recruiting they will cease to excist... or in the changing fase be forced to do major robberies - which will always go straight to hell for them ... which leaves us with the minor criminals which honestly isn't a "big" problem.

Of course, these things are easier to do in western countries, as western/industrial countries could easier face some problems in the changing face. But minor changes show that problems go away, they are not created. So I believe we need to do it on a larger scale as well! The modern civilization, human rights and so on, have been shaped by radical changes --- and we should never be afraid to have more of them!
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