There should be certain punishments for actual crimes, no doubt about it. I am firmly convinced of that. If you commit a murder, punishment should be handed down as best befits society.

On the other hand, making the Victorian assertion that since prostitutes are women we should make women property of men and repress their sexuality is wrong. If one woman makes a prostitute of herself, it doesn’t give society a warrant to impose a restrictive statue on someone else who has done nothing wrong. Isn’t the idea of justice and law to protect and ensure quality of life for those who have done nothing wrong? It is for this same reason that I criticize Muslim societies for forcing millions of people across the board to adhere to strict standards, regardless of their character or potential.

Even in the Bible, Paul acknowledges that weaker people may need restrictions (rarely governmentally imposed) against certain activities to prevent them from doing wrong. But the second half of that same verse (the part most Christians miss) is that you’re supposed to grow to be strong. Thus the failing of Victorian and Shariah societies- they lock people into the “weaker brother” position of the law forever and fail to account for growth. Talk about anti-Biblical, that’s called legalism… it’s what the Pharisees did. That’s why Christianity (and life) is a journey. You’re supposed to be gaining something, not staying in place.

In the movie “Minority Report” the concept of justice was played out “across the board” to the point that it ceased to be justice and became repression and terrorism to the innocent. Let’s not bring that idea back to America. Victorianism is dead.