Monday, December 13, 2010

That day I read few articles while doing few works for my sister. They were on human trafficking. It is hard to imagine that there are few people in this world who can use such helpless poor people for their own profit. This is how the general story goes. There is some natural calamity or some factory close down and these "people" come to these poor needy people saying they can get them either out of the affected area or get them a better job. Many kids are taken away like this. Then they are sold as cheap slaves in some new cities. Its completely inhuman. Gets my blood boiling. Who are we to "sell" another individual? I feel disgusted thinking of such people.


But, come again. How are we DIFFERENT from them. Of course we never sold any human. But all of us have this idea that we are superior. Many of us have heard people say, :Look, this is my dog." I ask, who gave us that right to OWN a dog. A man catches a helpless weak puppy and separates it from its family and mother. Then he comes to the market and sells it to us. We pay the money to the man (the man, not the DOG's family) and bring the dog home. And then tie it up by a collar and make it do stupid tricks (which it has to do just for food). How is this different. People may call me crazy for going nuts over such matters. "Its just a dog, dude. Chill." But its a dog today, an innocent child tomorrow. Its not a long step. If we REFUSE to feel and understand the feelings of an simple animal, it won't take us long to oversee those of a human for our profit.

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