(December 19, 2014 at 9:25 am)Tonus Wrote: Is Drich saying that if I buy a product that was produced in a sweatshop in China, I have "directly" supported slavery? Because that is a very slippery slope. How many other things can we be said to support "directly" when we do things without knowing the background? Rape? Prostitution? Murder? Theft? Are any of those okay if they are properly regulated?
It's real simple. You shop for the cheapest product that will fill the need you have. or maybe you want an apple or tomato outside of their normal northern hemisphere growing season? Where does that come from? A south American plantation who operates much like the plantations of the 1800 in the southern states.
These people are working/slaving for one reason. To provide a consumer based soceity with the products it buys. There is no other reason for them being there. That's what makes you responsiable for their conditions.
Which brings us to the otherside of the coin. Without our soceity these people would not have jobs period, and would die/starve. We need them, they need us.
What the bible does is protect them from a pure exploitaive relationship, like what we have now, because people like you want to sit on their imagined high horse and pretend all Slavery is bad.
WAKE UP!
The World runs on and NEEDS slavery to one degree or another. It always has and will unless we can develop our robotics far enough along to do all the labor jobs for free.
