With regards to our past debate, I almost put myself in a tight hole with regards to being able to be called out on a fallacy with regards to data that I found. My opponent brought up a bunch of facts regarding to how the legalization of prostitution actually increased rape culture as well as increasing the rates of STD's among women. I had found data from the US when the legislatures of Rhode Island had, by accident, legalized prostitution by actually erasing it from their constitution when they were trying to amend it. They did not catch this for five years and during that time both rape and gonorrhea among women decreased by over 30 percent. When I found this data it seemed too good to be true and seemed to be more false cause and that there was no correlation between the two. This set of data is an isolated example that I used to prove my point. It's still interesting to see if this was just a set of data that happened to fit or an actual correlation.
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