Swedish PM wants tougher sentences for those who buy sex from prostitutes

[brett_jv]

12. How do you NOT understand ...

Look at the headline, and then this blurb from the excerpt: "Currently, people buying sex can be fined or jailed for up to a year,".

A valid implication to be derived here is that the Swedes are cracking down on ALL sex-purchasing, even between consenting (i.e. non-minor/non-trafficked) adults. So that understanding is CLEARLY what the person you're responding to is referring to.

You are interpreting this article 'one way' (i.e. the ONLY thing in question w/the new laws are obvious types of rape), but your debate opponent is reading it a DIFFERENT way (that ALL "johns" are being cracked down on, regardless of consenting adults). There's really no way of telling which of you is 'right' from what's posted in the OP. Both interpretations are 'valid'. However, you seem to be the only one who is INSISTING that your understanding MUST be the 'correct' one ... and worse, using your MAYBE correct interpretation (but clearly NOT the one your opponent is arguing) to basically call him a supporter of child molestation and rape. That is really lame, IMHO.

Of COURSE nobody would argue that it's unreasonable to impose a 1 year minimum (the vast majority of people would say that's a little short, actually) on someone who *knowingly* pays for sex w/someone who's being trafficked, or who is below the legal age of consent, whatever that may be in Sweden.