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Does Slave Redemption Increase Slavery?

By Filings on Fri, 01/30/15
Society & Culture
Slavery
Human Trafficking
Social Ethics
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“[W]hile the individual effects—women and girls being freed—are laudatory, the long term effect of implementing the policy on a large scale could be disastrous.”

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Bert Perry

NewI think he's right

Fri, 01/30/15

Probably the best way to deal with people who kidnap people to force them into slavery—in ISIS generally including sexual slavery and degradation—is the Old Testament death penalty for man-stealers.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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