New York Times
By Howard W. French
Published: June 21, 2007
Color China Photo, via Associated Press
Heng Tinghan was the manager of brick works, who got arrested for beating and abusing his underage workers, and depriving them from pay in China. There has been several reports of labor abuses against children, where a 14 year old boy was killed in an explosion while filling a tank with naphthalene at a chemical factory, and when a 15 year old boy was pulled into a cotton gin and crushed.
The class connection is that “all men are created equal, and they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Which is stated in the unanimous Declaration of Independence. China does not have the same natural human rights as Americans do, but that does not make it any more right to have child slavery. We believe that all men are created equal, but when children are beaten or poorly paid, they are not being treated as the human beings they are.
I think that this is wrong; there cannot be slavery because we are all equal. We all have natural rights when we are born, and it stays with us until we die. Just because China has different rules does not mean that they can take advantage of the natural rights all humans have.
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