Debate: Is Prostitution Safer When It's Legal?
Can legalized prostitution ever be safe and free of exploitation? Or should laws against prostitution remain?

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: Working in a legal brothel makes prostitutes happier.
Warrant 0: happy hookers are at reduced risk
Warrant 1: even happy hookers are at risk
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: By legalizing prostitution, it can provide safeguards and protections.
Warrant 0: no amount of safeguards can protect citizens from the criminal activity that results from legal prostitution
Warrant 1: safeguards can protect citizens from the criminal activity that results from legal prostitution
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: Workers in legal brothels are safe and there by choice where violence and abuse are minimized.
Warrant 0: safety is relative and prostitution as a whole is still inherently dangerous regardless of the legal status
Warrant 1: safety is relative and prostitution as a whole is not dangerous regardless of the legal status
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: Legal prostitution will lead to a reduction in STD's and make sex slavery more difficult it has been shown that legality does not stop the sex industry from existing.
Warrant 0: when prostitution is legal it lowers the violence in the illegal sex trade due to competition
Warrant 1: when prostitution is legal it only raises the violence in the illegal sex trade due to competition
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: Because prostitution has been illegal, it tends to be dominated by often violent pimps.
Warrant 0: Having sex with strangers shouldn't be violent
Warrant 1: Having sex with strangers can be violent.
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: The current system causes prostitutes to be unable to control their work and safety.
Warrant 0: prostitution is inherently an unsafe job
Warrant 1: prostitution is not inherently an unsafe job
Correct warrant: 0

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: Legal prostitution will lead to a reduction in STD's and make sex slavery more difficult it has been shown that legality does not stop the sex industry from existing.
Warrant 0: the sex industry won't ever stop existing completely
Warrant 1: the sex industry won't stop existing completely
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is not safer when it's legal
Reason: The current system causes prostitutes to be unable to control their work and safety.
Warrant 0: legalizing prostitution will not make it occur more
Warrant 1: legalizing prostitution will make it occur more
Correct warrant: 1

Claim: Prostitution is safer when it's legal
Reason: Prostitution is harmful, dehumanizing, and encourages modern day slavery.
Warrant 0: it could be regulated and made safe if it were leagal
Warrant 1: it could not be regulated and made safe if it were leagal
Correct warrant: 0