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We should note too that a positive Legal Moralist as defined here need not be a negative Legal Moralist: one can believe that immorality provides a good reason for criminalization whilst also believing that there are other reasons, including reasons for criminalizing conduct that is not immoral.
(We will also look later at the argument that whilst immorality as such provides no reason for criminalization, immorality of the right kind does provide a good reason).
There is, however, a third way between the two extremes of holding that any kind of immorality provides a good reason for criminalization, and holding that immorality itself never provides a good reason in for criminalization: we can hold that immorality of the right kind provides a good reason for criminalizing conduct that involves it.
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If so, we might still be able to preserve some form of negative Legal Moralism, and hold that conduct that is not immoral cannot properly be criminalized; but we would need to look elsewhere for positive reasons for criminalization.
The reason given for criminalization was that the state police insisted they couldn't investigate trafficking without criminalizing prostitution.
Negative Legal Moralists hold instead that immorality constitutes only a necessary condition for criminalization: we must not criminalize conduct unless it is immoral, but its immorality does not give us any positive reason to criminalize it.
The crusade for criminalization was spearheaded by Donna M Hughes, a socially conservative women's studies professor who founded the organization Citizens Against Trafficking specifically to gather support around this legislation.
But we should not therefore see any good reason to criminalize betrayals of friendship; and although adultery is indeed a crime in some states, arguments about whether it is in principle apt for criminalization do not typically depend on claims that it is, or is not, harmful to the betrayed spouse the reality of that harm is taken for granted.
Third, other kinds of wrongful conduct are apt for criminalization because they involve serious unfairness towards one's fellow citizens.
Homosexuality is not illegal in Indonesia, though some politicians have called for criminalization of gay sex.
Newspapers have called for further erosion of rights, for criminalization of LGBT people and for outright murder.
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