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Quote by: tinybear No it's not. The kid's helping out the family voluntarily. The family benefits; the kid benefits. Everybody benefits, including the buyers of the drugs, right?
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Says nothing about her being forced to. Let's suppose (which is likely) she did it voluntarily. Do you still say it's slavery? |
tinybear, I'm guessing you are playing devil's advocate?
The thing about chidlren is that they do net yet have the same level of physiological and psychological development than an adult has...so the act of doing something voluntarily takes on an entirely different context when applied to children. Would it be ok for a child to be molested if they were voluntarily going along with it? Would it be ok for a parent to sell their child to someone for sex if the child went along with it? I could go on and on.
Regardless of your opinion on the wisdom of outlawing drugs, they
are an illegal substance. Not only is it wrong, but I believe evil, to corrupt and endanger a child's life by having them sell drugs.
Is it a victimless crime? You tell me...is there no victim when some heroin addict beats the kid to death and takes all the heroin and money and runs? Is there no victim when a person, high on their fix, kills a family in a car accident? What about the child whose life is devestated because their mother or father is in jail or forces them to live in squalor without proper education, clothing, food, shelter because they spend all their money on their fix? Again, I could go on and on.