So, the Loyola administration has fired, without cause or explanation, one of its best scientists, teachers and servants. Astrid and her colleagues, together with the entire Loyola community, have reason for concern. Prostitution is a problem, but making it legalized would only invite more corruption. The government reflects the opinions of the people, and most people believe prostitution to be wrong. The moral law is conscious of reality because it does not want the horrors Metcalfe speaks of to become commonplace in American society.
Prostitution is harmful to society.
Legalization could only augment this problem by saying that the government of the United States of America finds nothing wrong with it. Prostitution would become as generic as going shopping, going out to dinner and a movie, or going to the ballgame.