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Stephen Bauer
Hazlet, NJ
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Stephen commented on the article |Has anyone tried complaining to the district attorney's office in Monmouth County, N.J.?
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I agree with Gene Presley on why the ad was rejected. In a more philosophical mode: We in American are overly focused on rights; yet, we think little about corresponding responsibilities. Furthermore, society has become swamped with moral relativism. And even more, we value money more than anything. I lived in the community served by the Asbury Park press. Ethics demands that one take into the consideration the consequences of one’s actions. Yet the atmosphere of moral relativism says that no one can say that anything else someone does is wrong if it does not appear to hurt someone else. That is why this sort of filth is tolerated. The Asbury Park Press accepts these adds because they are making a lot of money off it. Presumably, the owners and senior management of the Asbury Park Press live otherwise moral lives. Some probably even go to church on Sunday. The ovewhelming majority of the paper’s major stakeholders would probably never place such an ad and patronize those claiming to provide a service. God forbid if any of their loved ones should ever become a victim of human trafficking. Yet, they have no problem if it happens to others. What kind of country have we become?
This is somewhat of an issue of child and women's rights. Do we really want to exalt freedom of speech and of the press s much that we want to put the health and safety of women and children at risk?
I am somewhat socially conservative and a serious Catholic. I would support legal measures against the type of ads that are currently being show. For example, why not require ads for massage services to also include the license # of the provider? And since prostitution is illegal any ads for prostitution should be against the law.
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Stephen commented on the article |Excellent points about the alleged/assumed guilt of Seagal. But I do not think there is any excuse for the disk jockeys and radio show.
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I realize that I sometimes combine or mix-up talking about the domestic and the global situation. A given reader may be thinking of one while I am writing about the other. Years ago, for a brief period of time I was a volunteer at Covenant House in NY, and that experience educate me somewhat on the issue of teenage runaways.
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I agree that sex trafficking is nothing new. But I do think that globalization has caused an increase in traficking and also made the conditions of slaves even worse. We can quibble about that, but that is not really important. For sure, I agree that many people are more aware of the problem than ever before and that is good. My comments here were specifically about Americans, as evidenced by the disk jockeys on the radio station, and by the fact that obviously the managers, owners, advertisers, and some of the listeners of the radio station tolerated this. In my mind I make a connection between the degradation of traditional sexual mores in society and the capability of some sleazy people to publicly tolerate, laugh at, or ridicule a sex slave.
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Stephen commented on the article |>>>Some would even argue that Catholics are victims by having been born into it, >>>brainwashed and left with no choice.
*Chuckles*
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