> Hard to imagine it happening at that scale in the West.
I think this idea is quite dangerous and reeks of superiority. It has happened before and it could happen again.
Sister comment made a point about forced prostitution and human traficcing being common.
I want to make a point that to get rid of this as a matter of policy, we've had revolutions and guillotines. To enforce this, we have well armed, strong goverments with long reach.
The fact that this keeps happening in every area without a strong government -from failed states to international waters - undercuts libertarian argument quite a bit. Youd think they would move to somalia en masse and turn it into the promosed land
> It has happened before and it could happen again.
Sure, I wasn't implying that it couldn't happen here, I'm just clumsy with words. I was trying to say it's hard to imagine it happening at similar scale _right now_, i.e. Danish fishing vessels buying slaves and throwing them overboard when they're too weak to continue working, in 2022.
I'm aware of trafficking, forced prostitution and indentured servitude with work in nail salons etc, but as far as I understand, the scale is (currently) very different, and it's much less extreme (assuming there are no secret mass graves we'll find in the future).
The "libertarian argument" (insofar as any one ideology can be summarized in a sentence) is for enough government for the rule of law to exist, with as many things as possible on top built by private efforts, not government. Somalia is about as far a place from the rule of law as conceivable.
>The fact that this keeps happening in every area without a strong government -from failed states to international waters - undercuts libertarian argument quite a bit
Myanmar is a hardcore communist military dictatorship, I'd hardly call that a weak government.
I think this idea is quite dangerous and reeks of superiority. It has happened before and it could happen again.
Sister comment made a point about forced prostitution and human traficcing being common.
I want to make a point that to get rid of this as a matter of policy, we've had revolutions and guillotines. To enforce this, we have well armed, strong goverments with long reach.
The fact that this keeps happening in every area without a strong government -from failed states to international waters - undercuts libertarian argument quite a bit. Youd think they would move to somalia en masse and turn it into the promosed land