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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
An Asian friend of mine once told me that human life was less valued in his home country than he found it to be here in America. Perhaps the aunt was acting from some similar belief, and it wasn't a big moral issue for her to sell a child. Understanding her reasons may be beyond us. I'm not sure I'd even want to...
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Is it really? Or is that what we tell ourselves to help us sleep at night.
In the past 16 years I have lived in NYC, people have been killed over $.25, a pair of sneakers, a leather jacket, affection of a girl, or even "looked at someone funny", babies have been sold for drugs, children for sexual favors in exchange for drugs... Again, I'm going to cite the human condition for these behaviors, not places nor cultures. While it may not be so prevalent in the MidWest, it does exist in similar ways all over the United States.
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