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How businesses deflect responsibilities for addressing modern slavery in their supply chains

It's a cultural problem.

"It makes us more money" will always be a viable excuse, because the useful idiots listening to it would do the same thing in their position.

Until our culture changes where we can put people before profits, then we shouldn't expect these problems to be fixed.

Most people literally don't want to fix them because most people don't see it as a problem.

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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told

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I've thought about this at length, and the conclusion I came to is that violence about self-sufficiency, while sex is about cooperation. With violence, you take matters into your own hands and you're in control regardless of what others feel. With sex, it's the exact opposite. You're at their mercy and they have power over you.

It makes sense in our hostile culture to teach kids about self-sufficiency and taking power for themselves. If they give that power up to others, then it opens them up to manipulation and exploitation.

I'm not making a judgement call on what's right or wrong, only what is.

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Shocking videos show Nigerian mobs beating gay men amid wave of anti-LGBTQ+ violence

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It's honestly a pretty smart play by their part.

Since people in developing nations don't have access to the information that we do, they're unaware of the cultural battles that we are fighting.

It's a lot easier to get in on "ground zero" and convince people that your side is correct if they don't know that there are any sides at all in the beginning.

It's telling that this is happening to gay people. It'll be a long while before their culture starts to accept trans people, if they ever do.

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Expectations vs reality for those who moved from a city to a small town?

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I'm experiencing the exact opposite, personally.

My neighbors have been extremely kind and generous, on a level that couldn't even be dreamed of in the city.

They've literally helped me cut my grass on several occasions out of pure kindness because they have a riding mower and I have a push one. And that's just one family.

My car has also never been broken into after years of living here. In the city, all of my friends' cars have been broken into.