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This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by i_am on Saturday, January 7, 2017 and has 26 replies.

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@i_am
9 Years

1. What is your opinion on modern slavery

2. How open minded are you

3. Do you easily get offended

4. Are you living up to your true personality

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@Deedee86
10 Years1,000+ Posts

1. I don't understand the lack of human compassion

2. I'm pretty open minded.

3. Not easily offended

4. To an extent but not 100% . I'm still a work in progress.

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@wagtail
13 Years5,000+ Posts

Posted by i_am
1. What is your opinion on modern slavery

2. How open minded are you

3. Do you easily get offended

4. Are you living up to your true personality

1. In what context?

2. Not open minded enough, probably.

3. Hardly ever offended.

4. I strive to do so, but when Life is constantly evolving, so is my "true" nature so that's actually too thought provoking for neow- no coffee yet.

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@fugu2
10 Years1,000+ Posts

Posted by i_am
1. What is your opinion on modern slavery

2. How open minded are you

3. Do you easily get offended

4. Are you living up to your true personality

unpaid internships is the modern slavery of the developed world

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@UrsaMediocre
16 Years1,000+ Posts

1. What is your opinion on modern slavery

Qatar should've went about developing the World Cup in a much more humane manner.

2. How open minded are you

Just because I understand it doesn't mean I like it.

3. Do you easily get offended

I might lean left but the triggering doesn't intensify.

4. Are you living up to your true personality

I'm not sure how that goes actually. I mean, I'm pretty Libra but I'm not a playboy.

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@Soul
11 Years10,000+ Posts

I don't really know what you mean by modern slavery.

Every normal human on earth is essentially a slave to the world powers. That's just how life functions efficiently. Humans work much like a hive of bees. I won't go into it deeply and feel most will get my point. Just as long as your people are somewhat happy, making money, can take care of their family, and have some time to be free and do what they want. If that's the case then working for your leaders and country as a whole to function better is fine.

Do I have the wrong idea on modern slavery?

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@i_am
9 Years

Posted by Soul
I don't really know what you mean by modern slavery.

Every normal human on earth is essentially a slave to the world powers. That's just how life functions efficiently. Humans work much like a hive of bees. I won't go into it deeply and feel most will get my point. Just as long as your people are somewhat happy, making money, can take care of their family, and have some time to be free and do what they want. If that's the case then working for your leaders and country as a whole to function better is fine.

Do I have the wrong idea on modern slavery?

No wrong answer, as long as it's relevant.

I was pertaining to human trafficking though.

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@Soul
11 Years10,000+ Posts

Posted by i_am
Posted by Soul
I don't really know what you mean by modern slavery.

Every normal human on earth is essentially a slave to the world powers. That's just how life functions efficiently. Humans work much like a hive of bees. I won't go into it deeply and feel most will get my point. Just as long as your people are somewhat happy, making money, can take care of their family, and have some time to be free and do what they want. If that's the case then working for your leaders and country as a whole to function better is fine.

Do I have the wrong idea on modern slavery?

No wrong answer, as long as it's relevant.

I was pertaining to human trafficking though.

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Imo I believe if you go to work everyday and don't act like a flipping fool you will be fine. At least in my country. If you act, dress, or have a written history of starting trouble eventually that trouble will catch up to you. After that the outcome is beyond me.

There will always be hateful evil people, and the outcome of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Nothing will ever change that. Negative force lives in the humans as much as the positive ones do. The opposite of everything has to exist for anything to exist. This formula created the universe. This is why as long as there are humans there will be feelings of love and hate, good and evil.

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@Montgomery
13 Years10,000+ Posts

1. What is your opinion on modern slavery

What kind of question is that?

Its as wrong now as it ever was.

Its symptomatic of the cursed world we live in.

2. How open minded are you

Hard question to answer, but I'm far more

open minded than I used to be.

3. Do you easily get offended

Intent isnt that difficult to perceive.

4. Are you living up to your true personality

Absolutely.

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@i_am
9 Years

Posted by Montgomery
1. What is your opinion on modern slavery

What kind of question is that?

Its as wrong now as it ever was.

Its symptomatic of the cursed world we live in.

2. How open minded are you

Hard question to answer, but I'm far more

open minded than I used to be.

3. Do you easily get offended

Intent isnt that difficult to perceive.

4. Are you living up to your true personality

Absolutely.

1. The question is too vague.

How do we contribute to modern slavery - human trafficking?

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@Montgomery
13 Years10,000+ Posts

1. The question is too vague.

How do we contribute to modern slavery - human trafficking?

Ahh... that's a good question.

I'm not certain.

I assume the demand for cheap goods and

services fuels a lot of it.

But I wonder if anyone, myself included, would

even begin to know what to do or how to start

combating something so huge.

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@Season
10 Years1,000+ Posts

I'm against all forms of slavery.

I'm completely open minded.

I would get offended easily if I was 100% sure someone had intended to offend me and I'm not just misinterpreting their words/actions.

I'm always true to myself and am continually evolving as life's journey leads me down so many new paths, meeting many new sages and new friends along the way.

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@i_am
9 Years

Posted by pisces4scorpio
There are many different characteristics that distinguish slavery from other human rights violations, however only one needs to be present for slavery to exist. Someone is in slavery if they are:

forced to work - through mental or physical threat;

owned or controlled by an 'employer', usually through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse;

dehumanised, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property';

physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.

Contemporary slavery takes various forms and affects people of all ages, gender and races.

WHAT FORMS OF SLAVERY EXIST TODAY?

Forced labour

Bonded labour

Human trafficking

Descent-based slavery

Child slavery

Slavery in supply chains

Forced and early marriage

Many forms of slavery involve more than one element or form listed above. For example, trafficking often involves an advance payment for the trip and organising a promised job abroad which is borrowed from the traffickers. Once at the destination, the debt incurred serves as an element of controlling the victims as they are told they cannot leave the job until the debt is paid off.

Labour

Sex

War

I cant wrap my head around sex trafficking though, why it is such a huge "demand".

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@cIoudy
9 Years

1. What is your opinion on modern slavery

It doesn't conform to my standards of morality.

2. How open minded are you

On a scale from 1 to 10, I'd say 6.5

3. Do you easily get offended

Extremely

4. Are you living up to your true personality

No

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@i_am
9 Years

Posted by pisces4scorpio
Posted by i_am
Posted by pisces4scorpio
There are many different characteristics that distinguish slavery from other human rights violations, however only one needs to be present for slavery to exist. Someone is in slavery if they are:

forced to work - through mental or physical threat;

owned or controlled by an 'employer', usually through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse;

dehumanised, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property';

physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.

Contemporary slavery takes various forms and affects people of all ages, gender and races.

WHAT FORMS OF SLAVERY EXIST TODAY?

Forced labour

Bonded labour

Human trafficking

Descent-based slavery

Child slavery

Slavery in supply chains

Forced and early marriage

Many forms of slavery involve more than one element or form listed above. For example, trafficking often involves an advance payment for the trip and organising a promised job abroad which is borrowed from the traffickers. Once at the destination, the debt incurred serves as an element of controlling the victims as they are told they cannot leave the job until the debt is paid off.

Labour

Sex

War

I cant wrap my head around sex trafficking though, why it is such a huge "demand".

Because people feel powerless

And in 'coping' they need to wield some sort of power over weaker people

sex is about power more than fulfilling some physical urge when it comes to things like this.

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Do you think porn is related to it in some way?

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@i_am
9 Years

Posted by pisces4scorpio
Posted by i_am
Posted by pisces4scorpio
Posted by i_am
Posted by pisces4scorpio
There are many different characteristics that distinguish slavery from other human rights violations, however only one needs to be present for slavery to exist. Someone is in slavery if they are:

forced to work - through mental or physical threat;

owned or controlled by an 'employer', usually through mental or physical abuse or the threat of abuse;

dehumanised, treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property';

physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.

Contemporary slavery takes various forms and affects people of all ages, gender and races.

WHAT FORMS OF SLAVERY EXIST TODAY?

Forced labour

Bonded labour

Human trafficking

Descent-based slavery

Child slavery

Slavery in supply chains

Forced and early marriage

Many forms of slavery involve more than one element or form listed above. For example, trafficking often involves an advance payment for the trip and organising a promised job abroad which is borrowed from the traffickers. Once at the destination, the debt incurred serves as an element of controlling the victims as they are told they cannot leave the job until the debt is paid off.

Labour

Sex

War

I cant wrap my head around sex trafficking though, why it is such a huge "demand".

Because people feel powerless

And in 'coping' they need to wield some sort of power over weaker people

sex is about power more than fulfilling some physical urge when it comes to things like this.

Do you think porn is related to it in some way?

Oh i know so.

its not a theory. its a fact.

ive worked with humanitarian groups to rescue sex trafficked women and children overseas. A lot of them had stories of everything being filmed.

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Is it safe to work for humanitarian group in a government corrupted country?

What is the suicidal rate?