Different strokes for different folks.

Indignation at "child labour" and "sweat shops" being expressed on the news programmes this morning, following the revelation that at least some of a leading High Street clothes shop's stock is being made by young children in Asia. I think we have to be careful before we seek to impose our ideas and values on peoples to whom they may not apply. I remember a report years ago on this subject, which found that in certain parts of the world, the idea of children working was the norm, and indeed without the extra income they brought in, many families would starve. After all, it's not much more than a hundred years ago that it was the norm in this country. Just because we find something distasteful, doesn't necessarily make it wrong in the context in which it is going on. Certainly the child who featured in the undercover film shown as evidence of the practice seemed pretty happy and well-fed.