He requested a good solution. If you don't understand the obvious ways in which that won't work ...

Or even that using drones instead of soldiers kills less civilians. Care to guess how many civilians die if we have to invade Pakistan with the army instead of calling in a drone? The historical ratio for conventional military invasion is something like 100 times worse in terms of killing civilians.

I think your unstated assumption that this would increase empathy for the victims is mistaken. Higher realism in games has been on a pretty consistent trend of reducing empathy for the victims.

Than all other forms of combat. If we're going to kill terrrorists, there's no less civilian killing way to do it (currently).

Well, no, 'your property' is pretty much the opposite of 'public'.

Research studies.

They really wouldn't. Random hookups at a bar rarely involve a person who has sex with more than a dozen or so partners per year. The really good prostitutes could push a thousand.

No threat of bodily harm is the main problem. That threat is present in virtually all prostitution, even the kind where the threat is kept secret from the johns.

Well, the most obvious answer would seem to be spread of disease.

I wondered why that wasn't a more popular choice than burial or cremation. TMYK, thanks!

Maybe you should try publicly assaulting someone in the US where violence is OK, and compare how those things turn out.

If you don't know, I really recommend having sex. Or maybe sex with a more skilled partner.

Prostitution is controlled on a state by state basis in the US, it is NOT universally illegal. The separation of powers between states and federal government is a big deal here that burns a lot of court $$$ in figuring out who gets to decide what.

The argument in favor is that the purely consensual kind is so rare that the harm done in suppressing it is warranted by the benefit gained in the other 99.9% of cases. Similarly, a justified homicide is occasionally swept up by the murder laws, and while unfortunate, we really want to retain the benefit of having those laws on the books.

I'd say that's destroying it. The data alone are nothing, the algorithms are integral, even perhaps more important than the data. Would you claim my younger self still exists just because a few of his thought processes are still around? Even myself from yesterday is gone forever.