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To: fresc who wrote (42538)	12/5/2005 12:06:04 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

What are China's child labour laws? That, after all, is the jurisdiction that applies.

To: fresc who wrote (42538)	12/5/2005 2:13:35 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 90947

Leave me out of it. Voluntary child labor is better than child dying. It is a bad old world. Of course, a social contract (voluntary/capitalistic) of some degree of mutual assistance is better yet. But there is a reason why that child was pushed by his parents to move from nothing to next to nothing. There is worse and there is better. BUT...you just cannot FORCE anyone to consider interests beyond their own plot of ground. It would not be right. That probably sounds sarcastic, but it is fundamental to human rights... So by all means preach a compassionate conservatism (or a compassionate anything)--but human beings ought not to be forced. Dictators force. You cannot create a compassionate world by force. You can only persuade and DO. Democratic government enacts the Will of the people--not the FORCE of the people...