Dutch wrote:

> "Derek" > wrote >
>
>>"Jonathan Ball" > wrote
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>>>>>>>Some people with more time on their hands than sense
>>>>>>>(and a guilty conscience) claim, without evidence, that
>>>>>>>the cocoa crop in West Africa is harvested using child
>>>>>>>slave labor. It isn't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>There IS plenty of evidence proving it exists,
>>>>>
>>>>>None. It doesn't exist.
>>>>
>>>>There IS plenty of evidence proving it exists.
>>>
>>>It doesn't exist.
>>
>>It was there a minute ago. What've you done with it?
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> Instead of going back and forth endlessly about a semantic difference, why
> not make the claim that one supports "indentured servitude" by consuming
> these products? Doesn't that present your point just as well?

No, not really. It doesn't allow him as easily to try
to step onto a non-existent moral pedestal.