“I’ve been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again” (Lawson). Here is a very distasteful, yet eye opening quote to make people think more in depth of what human trafficking is, and why it should be stopped. It informs those who read it that human trafficking is a crime where people are taken advantage of, and forced to do very appalling things that they do not wish to do. Human trafficking is an immense issue around the world that causes awful effects on the victims, and their friends and families. Human Trafficking is something that society needs to acknowledge more so that it can be stopped.
First off, human trafficking is an opaque topic to many people around the world, which doesn’t help …show more content…
Unfortunately for the victims and the people against human trafficking, there are many benefits that will convince the traffickers that what they are doing is worth it. First of all, being involved in this business can earn a trafficker enormous amounts of money. The business as a whole produces around $33 billion annually, and individually, a trafficker can easily make $250,000 a year off of one slave. Also, traffickers gain money when selling their slaves because the slave has been trained to know how they are supposed to act, which saves the future owner from any trouble with behavior issues. Another benefit of human trafficking to the traffickers is using people to act as suicide bombers (List 25). In this situation, the traffickers don’t have to worry about killing themselves, they can just buy someone else to perform a suicide bombing for between $7,000 and $14,000. This way, the job gets done, and the trafficker doesn’t have to think about all of the friends and family they will leave behind, or the rest of their life they would not get to see. Human trafficking is also used for organ harvesting (List 25). This can be beneficial for traffickers when a loved one is in need of an organ, and there isn’t one to be found. All of the given examples go to show that many of the benefits outweigh the risks that are taken by the traffickers, which is why the human trafficking business is still
First off, human trafficking is an opaque topic to many people around the world, which doesn’t help …show more content…
Unfortunately for the victims and the people against human trafficking, there are many benefits that will convince the traffickers that what they are doing is worth it. First of all, being involved in this business can earn a trafficker enormous amounts of money. The business as a whole produces around $33 billion annually, and individually, a trafficker can easily make $250,000 a year off of one slave. Also, traffickers gain money when selling their slaves because the slave has been trained to know how they are supposed to act, which saves the future owner from any trouble with behavior issues. Another benefit of human trafficking to the traffickers is using people to act as suicide bombers (List 25). In this situation, the traffickers don’t have to worry about killing themselves, they can just buy someone else to perform a suicide bombing for between $7,000 and $14,000. This way, the job gets done, and the trafficker doesn’t have to think about all of the friends and family they will leave behind, or the rest of their life they would not get to see. Human trafficking is also used for organ harvesting (List 25). This can be beneficial for traffickers when a loved one is in need of an organ, and there isn’t one to be found. All of the given examples go to show that many of the benefits outweigh the risks that are taken by the traffickers, which is why the human trafficking business is still