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As long as it is ignored and promited people will use it

Posted by: William D. ( USA ) on February 01, 1999 at 17:57:44:

In Reply to: Humankind is better than that posted by Jewl on September 22, 1998 at 02:22:26:

: : Even though I agree that child labor is wrong we have to except that
: : this society is capitalistic and it will always be that way.

: That can't be the way life is. Humankind is better than that. Yes, society IS capitalistic but there are enough who care: Amnesty, Unicef, etc...As long as PEOPLE care and society functions as a whole it is possible for the world to acknowledge what needs to be done.

I disaggree with child labor/slavery but believe humankind is not above it. As long as it is ignored and promited people will use it, and in many places children must work because their famlies can't afford to feed them other wise. The real root of the problem may not be in companys willingness to employ children but in their willingness to explot their parents. In Mexico many children work as soon as they are able because must there parents have no chose. I know what some of you are thinking that yes they 'have a choice' and your right they do. They could not send their kids to work and let the every one in the family go hungry, but let me ask you something first before you shrug off what I have said. Would you let your kids go hungry or send them to work first?

What do you think let me know post it.
Thanks for reading,
William D.


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