What do you call the victim, someone who suffers from not having a right?
For example, the perspective of the public about sexually trafficked victims
is often so different from reality.
Many of these victims do not always see themselves as "slaves."
Often, the people who traffic them are considered by the victims
to be their boyfriend.
Thus, Right to Liberty is not even what they are seeking,
although we, the public, may think so.
What many of them are seeking is more simple:
the Right to Love and the Right to Respect.
The idea of being in someone else's shoes applies here.
I have come across many times in writing this blog that
victims lacking rights often have a hugely different perspective
of themselves than the general public has of them.
Another instance of this are the young immigrants without papers who do not
consider themselves 'illegal,' which implies, to them, criminal behavior.
Instead, they may think of themselves as 'undocumented.
One of these "DREAMers" of the DREAM Act, stated last week in a forum,
"No one is born illegal."
So, be careful. Consider well what you words you use for a victim of rights.
For more information,
this is the original posting of The Right to Liberty.
Here is a list of anti-slave-trafficking sites.
Get informed, before making opinions about victims.
For example, the perspective of the public about sexually trafficked victims
is often so different from reality.
Many of these victims do not always see themselves as "slaves."
Often, the people who traffic them are considered by the victims
to be their boyfriend.
Thus, Right to Liberty is not even what they are seeking,
although we, the public, may think so.
What many of them are seeking is more simple:
the Right to Love and the Right to Respect.
The idea of being in someone else's shoes applies here.
I have come across many times in writing this blog that
victims lacking rights often have a hugely different perspective
of themselves than the general public has of them.
Another instance of this are the young immigrants without papers who do not
consider themselves 'illegal,' which implies, to them, criminal behavior.
Instead, they may think of themselves as 'undocumented.
One of these "DREAMers" of the DREAM Act, stated last week in a forum,
"No one is born illegal."
So, be careful. Consider well what you words you use for a victim of rights.
For more information,
this is the original posting of The Right to Liberty.
Here is a list of anti-slave-trafficking sites.
Get informed, before making opinions about victims.
