Thank you for an interesting and important post. It is amazing how many well-meaning Westerners want to ban poor and desperate people from doing things that would genuinely make their lives better, simply because those Westerners cannot imagine themselves ever being so poor and desperate that they would voluntarily [work as a labourer in Qatar | work in a sweatshop | sell a kidney | insert example here].
I made a similar point in Don’t take bad options away from people but I hope that your more concrete and less abstract post will persuade people more effectively.
Thank you, a quick glance at your post leaves me nodding in agreement. It’s a damn shame it didn’t get the traction it deserves. I wish more people understood that we shouldn’t let the bad become the enemy of the even worse.
This seems like putting the cart before the horse though?
If there existed a literally perfect arbiter of “bad”, “enemy”, “worse”, and so on that literally 100% of mankind adhered to… your writing wouldn’t even be needed in the first place.
Thank you for an interesting and important post. It is amazing how many well-meaning Westerners want to ban poor and desperate people from doing things that would genuinely make their lives better, simply because those Westerners cannot imagine themselves ever being so poor and desperate that they would voluntarily [work as a labourer in Qatar | work in a sweatshop | sell a kidney | insert example here].
I made a similar point in Don’t take bad options away from people but I hope that your more concrete and less abstract post will persuade people more effectively.
Thank you, a quick glance at your post leaves me nodding in agreement. It’s a damn shame it didn’t get the traction it deserves. I wish more people understood that we shouldn’t let the bad become the enemy of the even worse.
This seems like putting the cart before the horse though?
If there existed a literally perfect arbiter of “bad”, “enemy”, “worse”, and so on that literally 100% of mankind adhered to… your writing wouldn’t even be needed in the first place.