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After all, it doesn't matter how much you could get from selling the diamond if you never make it out of the desert.
As an individual caught selling a large quantity of drugs in my late teens, I knew firsthand the power of opportunity as opposed to the wrath of the criminal justice system.
He said, "I'm working with three friends, and we're going to try to disrupt an industry by selling stuff online."
Japanese cars are selling in record numbers there.
Most of those people would tell you that selling sex is degrading; that no one would ever choose to do it; that it's dangerous; women get abused and killed.
Lawmakers in these countries apparently hope that the fear of getting arrested will deter people from selling sex.
The law forces you to keep selling sex, which is the exact opposite of its intended effect.
Another worrying thing: if you're selling sex in places like Kenya, South Africa or New York, a police officer can arrest you if you're caught carrying condoms, because condoms can legally be used as evidence that you're selling sex.
The second approach to regulating sex work seen in these countries is partial criminalization, where the buying and selling of sex are legal, but surrounding activities, like brothel-keeping or soliciting on the street, are banned.
If you're caught selling sex outdoors, you pay a fine.
And so the fines stack up, and you're caught in a vicious cycle of selling sex to pay the fines you got for selling sex.
The idea behind this law is that selling sex is intrinsically harmful and so you're, in fact, helping sex workers by removing the option.
It's because people selling sex often don't have other options for income.
It's looking like all attempts to control or prevent sex work from happening makes things more dangerous for people selling sex.
Fines and criminal records force people to keep selling sex, rather than enabling them to stop.
Many do this with the full knowledge that they'll be selling sex when they reach their destination.
If you try to prohibit something that people want or need to do, whether that's drinking alcohol or crossing borders or getting an abortion or selling sex, you create more problems than you solve.
In a better, more equal world, maybe there would be far fewer people selling sex to survive, but you can't simply legislate a better world into existence.
People worry that selling sex is degrading.
It's the fact of poor migrant women selling sex specifically that has some feminists uncomfortable.
It was torn up in a wastepaper basket, but when they pieced it back together, they discovered that someone in their ranks had been selling military secrets to Germany.
You seem to be saying that the key selling points of your product are that it is inefficient and complex.
I don't think this segment of the market can be addressed by companies parachuting from another place of the world, and just dumping product and selling into the markets.
Since 1937, Disney has made most of its money selling princesses to girls.
Because when you make a lot of money selling princesses to girls, you also kind of want to make money from boys.
That's how good Marvel was at selling superheroes.
Now, the CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, and the board did not want to sell themselves to Amazon, because that would be the prime example of selling out.
Selling did nothing.
This is an actual screenshot of a vendor selling malware.
And the first step in that is selling the rights to resource extraction.
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