| I used to believe that. But now I'm not so sure.
1) One significant reason is the seeming impossibility of keeping the mafia out of the picture. (If you know of a country that has solved this one, I'd sure like to hear about it.) Mafia = criminal exploitation.
2) There may be a miniscule percentage of prostitutes (or strippers, say) who don't have a serious psychological self-esteem problem. But they must be very rare.
Government (at the bidding of society) regulates all sorts of things to make sure people don't get the chance to enslave themselves (child-labour laws, etc. etc.).
"I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything."
-- Viscount Melbourne |