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		<title>In bad faith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this article on saving advice about sex as a way to save money. I don&#8217;t love it for the article itself, but for one comment below the article, written by &#8220;faith&#8221;: Anyone that has no moral compass and would sleep with a prostitute should never be allowed to give advice to others. It [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love this article on saving advice <a href="http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/2008/05/29/102142_financial-advice-from-a-call-girl.html">about sex as a way to save money</a>. I don&#8217;t love it for the article itself, but for one comment below the article, written by &#8220;faith&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>Anyone that has no moral compass and would sleep with a prostitute should never be allowed to give advice to others. It is disgusting that you are allowed to write for this blog.</p>
<p>Sex is not a way to save money. It is a way for a good Christian couple to raise a family. This is the worst financial article I have ever read.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are several fallacies here:</p>
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<li>Thinking that to have sex with a prostitute means you have no moral compass. Having sex with a stranger for money is only bizarre in the USA. It&#8217;s not immoral, nor is it amoral. It doesn&#8217;t increase suffering, and it is both a consensual act and a business transaction.</li>
<li>It doesn&#8217;t make someone&#8217;s advice invalid on any subject.  Being someone who doesn&#8217;t know about a subject (like say, morality) makes for bad advice.</li>
<li>Because one person doesn&#8217;t like it doesn&#8217;t mean that a person should never give advice. A lot of people think this is a valid form of argument. You can&#8217;t state an opinion forcefully and have it magically become fact. That&#8217;s not how things work.</li>
<li>It is not disgusting that this person is allowed to write for the blog. This again is opinion stated as fact, another thing I can&#8217;t stand from this segment of the population.</li>
<li>The author pointed out the ways that sex has saved money for him. To say it doesn&#8217;t save money is a flat-out contradiction of this. Of course, paying for sex doesn&#8217;t save money, but this isn&#8217;t what he&#8217;s talking about.</li>
<li>Sex is not only for Christians. It&#8217;s for people of all faiths or lack of faith.</li>
<li>Sex is not a tool used only to start a family. It is both useful for reproduction and recreation. Again, stating opinion as some sort of fact.</li>
<li>The worst advice I can imagine would be something like: Buy contractualized debt obligations. Not this.</li>
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<p>Yet another example of one culture thinking it&#8217;s the only culture and training people to spark moral outrage at the slightest offense. It&#8217;s embarrassing that we have to see this sort of thing in the 21st century.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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