>>So we need to export the labor movement, too. The conditions under which some workers around the world labor should be horrifying to anybody, as should how young some of those workers are.
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>You can't judge other countries by American Standards. I've lived all over the world and the mores and cultures are different. In many countries, children are supposed to work, it's the norm. In many countries, the woman do the work, in others the males. When in Rome...

Yeah, but 100 or so years back, it was the norm for children (poor children, anyway) to work in this country. We finally decided that was wrong and fixed it. I believe in respecting other cultures, but not to the point that I think it's okay for an 8-year-old to work a 10-hour day instead of going to school. Some rights are fundamental:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

I put the right for children to be children and to be educated among those fundamental rights and consider it part of my responsibility as a living, breathing human being to do what I can to make that a reality.

Tamar