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Poverty is like slavery in a very flippant sense. You only have to read some of the first-hand accounts of human trafficking to get the sense of the difference.
by andy_herbert 14y ago
Poverty is like slavery in a very flippant sense. You only have to read some of the first-hand accounts of human trafficking to get the sense of the difference.
- _delirium 14y agoSome of those human-trafficking accounts are related to poverty as well: desperate people sometimes voluntarily sign up to human smuggling services (e.g to get them across the US-Mexico or Turkey-EU border), with mixed and often bad results. Many sex-trafficking cases are poverty-related also, not all based on kidnapping random people. Admittedly, that's not Americans in poverty.
- kevinpet 14y agoLots of terrorists use cell phones, so using a cell phone is terrorism?
- toomuchcoffee 14y agoNo, but reductio ad absurdum is a poor argument technique.