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03/10/2006 02:27:55 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
Originally posted by kdkaboom:
legalbeagle rawks! |
I don't often have to look words up - but thanks (I think). |
ahaha, it is a total compliment! i thought your post was incredibly well written (not like my spelling of "ROCKS")
carry on!
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03/10/2006 03:17:23 PM · #52 |
I really tried to get this thread back to the original discussion but now admit defeat!!!
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03/10/2006 04:47:33 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by Cutter:
Bosses do not equate to masters. I mean seriously.....Is this person serious. |
From the peanut gallery:
Technically, boss (from the Dutch word "baas") can mean "master".
Carry on. |
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03/11/2006 05:47:47 PM · #54 |
Well if your wearing Nike or most other big name clothing brand, or have ever shopped at Wal-mart, you are supporting child and slave wage labor. So yeah, its still very present in American life.
Message edited by author 2006-03-11 17:49:52. |
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03/14/2006 04:25:18 PM · #55 |
migrant workers whether illegal or not is not slavery. When was the last time we forced migrant workers to enter the country get jobs for low or any wages and held them at that job against their will.
Sweatshops may take advantage of people, but it isn't slavery. These people are willing to work for what we think is peanuts because of their current economic situation, not because we force them to work. Working for pennies is still better than not working at all for these people, it still puts some food on their table. It is immoral for businesses to use people like this to lower manufacturing costs, but that is another debate.
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03/14/2006 06:17:08 PM · #56 |
Originally posted by sdunsmoor:
LOL! You've got to be joking! To say truth (right or wrong) is relative is a bit ridiculous don't you think? It's a slippery slope. Is murder right? Or wrong? Is slavery right? Or wrong?
Has to be one or the other. Everything will have an absolute truth. |
History appears to disagree with you. Or do you assume that when slavery was legal, everyone knew it was an absolute truth that it was wrong but just went along with it ?
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03/14/2006 06:19:51 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by Jmnuggy:
It is immoral for businesses to use people like this to lower manufacturing costs, but that is another debate. |
If it's immoral for the businesses to use people like that, is it also immoral to buy their goods ? |
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03/20/2006 08:41:17 AM · #58 |
Wow thanks to everyone whp replied...It is true that this could have never happend,but since this was a 3 page thread i think it was a good question...I am personally happy that slavery ended mainly because i like all the things i have and can do, of course i cant say that i like the government we have,but you cant win them all...
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03/20/2006 09:15:29 AM · #59 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
[quote=JmnuggyIt is immoral for businesses to use people like this to lower manufacturing costs, but that is another debate.
If it's immoral for the businesses to use people like that, is it also immoral to buy their goods ? |
Yes! That's why fair trade goods are important and, whenever possible, the boycotting of goods made by or distributed by companies that employ slave labour is paramount to stopping this form of slavery. Once their behaviour is public knowledge they are pressurised to doing something about it. On the other hand, taking work to cheaper countries is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Message edited by author 2006-03-20 09:16:58.
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