r/news • u/FreeChickenDinner • 4d ago

West Virginia couple charged with trafficking their adopted Black children to be used as ‘slaves,’ authorities allege

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/west-virginia-adopted-black-children-slaves-reaj/index.html
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u/philiretical 4d ago

Because we are better people than them. A barely better life than what they gave is exactly what they deserve. They will still feel like it's an injustice to them, obviously. They're bad people, but we have to draw a line that we won't cross or else we let ourselves become the people we hate.

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u/Synectics 4d ago

Well put. It's what annoys me about people locked up for crimes like Jan 6th, who complain about their prison conditions.

Yeah, prisons suck. A lot of people have protested them. But you never cared because only the "right" people had to go to prison. The moment it affected you or your family, you think prisons need improvement. 

It's that lack of empathy that I don't want to lose.

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u/Farseli 4d ago

I don't think we become what we hate until we copy them, and we can't because they aren't children. Anything we do to them won't be the same, so we don't need to worry about it.

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u/philiretical 4d ago

The lesson I would want people to learn is how to do better, not show how effective fear tactics work to control other's behaviors. It's how we still live with people doing stuff like this.