07-01-2016, 06:16 PM
Thank you, X_4AD_84, for seeing this thread worthy of a comment.
This is distressing material. Even a rescue story implies that people -- especially children -- have been exploited badly.
Sexual trafficking is a vile crime. Many of us are scared to discuss it because we think it is about sex. Sex is only a slight part of it. It's exploitation and abuse; it is denial of what makes life human. Human trafficking even without sex would be disgusting in its own right, whether it were for farm or industrial labor.
I once went to a fast-food restaurant in a shopping mall in Fort Wayne, Indiana... the food was good. But my eyes wandered beyond the counter and saw a list or work rules. One was "no cell phones", so workers are out of touch with anything else while there. Others were rigid rule of conduct on the job. I won't go into the details, except to say that the food wasn't so appealing after I saw those work rules.
Sex trafficking is the worst -- but I can also imagine all the underpaid workers in some businesses.
This is distressing material. Even a rescue story implies that people -- especially children -- have been exploited badly.
Sexual trafficking is a vile crime. Many of us are scared to discuss it because we think it is about sex. Sex is only a slight part of it. It's exploitation and abuse; it is denial of what makes life human. Human trafficking even without sex would be disgusting in its own right, whether it were for farm or industrial labor.
I once went to a fast-food restaurant in a shopping mall in Fort Wayne, Indiana... the food was good. But my eyes wandered beyond the counter and saw a list or work rules. One was "no cell phones", so workers are out of touch with anything else while there. Others were rigid rule of conduct on the job. I won't go into the details, except to say that the food wasn't so appealing after I saw those work rules.
Sex trafficking is the worst -- but I can also imagine all the underpaid workers in some businesses.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.