| | of all the nasty things that humans are capable of, and have been doing, slavery and selling girls for prostitution really are the two that make me most angry. I remember reading the totilas curtain (which I wrote about a long time ago, not really about slavery but...), and testimonies from slaves on how they were treated and sold and bought, the same kind of anger rose in me. now I'm reading the memoirs of a gaisha, and I have the same feeling.
I have seen and read lots of horrible things that humans have done, torturing - in order to make someone admit something, or just torture because one wants others to suffer... war - killingss, shootings, bombing, kill just because one is of a different race/religion, rape just because one is a woman whom one's leader said is one's enemy... gas chambers, so-called medical experiment,... all of these show a lot of human nature - cruel, obidient without own judgement, animal-like (after all we are animals), disgusting, horrible, nasty, self-protective to the point of erasing others of different race or have different believes... but none of these gives me the same kind of feeling as when I read about selling and buying people to be slaves or prostitutes. these two are just everything nasty combined and the sum is greater than the parts.
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| | Posted 2/11/2008 11:17 PM - 87 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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