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[Davidontour]

I find this lying about things a very disturbing trait among "antis". Not just "anti sex", but antis in general. Those opposed to abortion are quite capable of using entirely false statistics and false ideas—"post-abortion syndrome"—and how abortion leads to sterility (it doesn't) or breast cancer (it doesn't) and whatever. There are too many stories about nuns saying that condoms are pierced so they don't prevent conception to be disbelieved. And even "anti vaxxers"—those Americans in particular who are against vaccination against infectious diseases—are quite capable of inventing myths and stories about things that simply don't exist. A recent one was the use of the preservative thiomersal in some vaccines, claiming it caused autism. There wasn't any thiomersal in these vaccines.

Antis are certainly entitled their point of view: but why do they find it so necessary to lie? Are they totally deluded? Are their arguments so weak that they allow delusions? What is wrong with them?

And yet, I don't think I've ever seen anything "pro", whether pro-abortion or pro-choice, or pro vaccination, or pro sex work that contains downright lies.

From the 'antis' viewpoint, the end justifies the means. If only one person has been coercively trafficked in the last decade, that makes it OK to pretend the problem is huge, as the resultant legislation may prevent there being a second victim. Add to that a moral zealotry and considerable lucrative funding and the incentive to embellish, inflate and simply lie becomes irresistible.

Another factor is the bizarre situation where a court of law requires concrete proof to convict a suspect, but the law itself requires no actual proof in order to be passed by government.

Take the current anti-sex work legislation in the North. There were no requirements to pass this law, other than convincing 50+ MLAs, most of whom had no knowledge of sex work, to go with their prejudice and vote for it. By effectively barring current sex workers from the hearings and pushing a one-sided agenda, this was pushed through in the name of human trafficking, despite the fact that there hadn't been a single victim of coercive trafficking for prostitution all year.

The result is quite simply bad law with little or no basis in fact, creating a culture of lies and creating a dangerous precedent for the future.