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The law has criminalized prostitution but not got rid of it.
This criminality was increased by legislation that criminalized customary and informal economic activities.
Although the state might decide to criminalize hate speech, hate speech might be regulated without invoking the criminal law.
Intrinsically morally permissible conduct, such as driving without a seat belt, does not automatically become immoral upon being criminalized.
Fashioned from the same gender ideology that criminalized male desertion and non-support of families, they represented a form of state provision for social reproduction.
Accepting the general case for criminalizing mere offense will inevitably lead to restrictions on individuals' autonomy, especially because the criminal law is so coarse-grained.
It is an absolutism because it denies that a certain consideration, voluntary harm to self, is ever a reason at all for criminalizing.
Indeed, they may be criminalized even though they do not cause harm at all.
And when we criminalize that element, we suppress that particular, valuable way of life.
