This is a particularly thorny issue because the debate is often wrapped in several layers of hypocrisy, often leading to many humanitarian plans but no actual improvements. Liberals take pride in buying products made in accordance with child labour regulations although this means that companies will move from places such as Bangladesh and the previously employed children will end-up in forced prostitution. Conservatives take pride in “saving” fetuses but look down on single mothers as undesirables. Everybody decries child abuse by priests after trials but before that it is a taboo subject. Everybody decries forced labour and prostitution but after we reassure ourselves of our high moral standard, we forget about the solutions. To most people, the girls raped in Cambodia or the children staving in Sudan are world problems, issues to put on a bumper-sticker so everybody can see how moral we are.
2007-10-29
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