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Forty-five percent of the chocolate we consume in the that a portion of the Ivory Coast cocos beans that goes into United States and in the rest of the world is made from co- the chocolate we eat was grown and harvested by slave chil. coa beans grown and harvested on farms in the Ivory Coast, dren. The slaves are boys berween 12 and 16-but some- a small nation on the western coast of Africa. Few realize times as young as 9-who are kidnapped from villages in

In your view,is the kind of child slavery discussed in this case absolutely wrong no matter what,or is it only relatively wrong,ie.,if one happens to live in a society(like ours) that disapproves of child slavery? Explain your view and why you hold it.

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The child slavery discussed in the case study was absolutely wrong no matter what. It because of how they treated the children with ages 11 to 16: some of them were locked in solitary confinement, they were forced to work 12 hours a day for no salary, many of them were regularly beaten, and none of them received any schooling; the way they handle the children it was very abusive. The group also agrees with the stand. In the context of Philippine culture, child slavery is common but it is viewed mostly as child labour. Our state prohibits this kind of labour but we cannot prevent this due to the poor economic status of our country that the government could not provide funds to numerous poor people.

because of the aforementioned problem, the poor people try to make their own way to provide for themselves such as working at an early age of 5 years old for them to earn living and get through each day. But here in our country, poor people at any age, it is a must for them to work because poverty is prevalent. Although there are some cases that children are being trafficked here in our country and being shipped to another place to work in a tobacco and cotton plantations and some are being sold to syndicates for child prostitution which is also a form child slavery. The children who are being trafficked are being mercilessly whipped and in extreme cases, hanged. To sum it up, the moral issue here is the maltreatment of young people. The young people, especially in their formative years, they should be studying for their future and not out in the streets or in some places doing heavy responsibilities beyond their abilities in a hazardous environment while being treated like animals.

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