Ethical Implications of Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery where people profit from the control and exploitation of others. Human trafficking involves acts of recruiting, transporting, harboring or receiving a person through the use of threats, abduction, deception, force, or other coercive means for the purpose of exploitation. Its victims include, persons in forced labor, persons trafficked for the removal of eggs or other organs, and adult and children kept in bondage for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Human trafficking occurs in every part of the world, from less developed countries to more developed countries, such as the United States. As such, it is a crime under U.S. and international law. Victims can be any age or gender and from any economic standing in life. A thirty-two-million-dollar industry, human trafficking is on the rise and is in all fifty U.S. states (Rieger, 2007). Using the Theory of Utilitarianism, I
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That is the same as believing only your neighbor’s dog barks. Human trafficking exists in every country, including the United States. It is a nationwide dilemma, existing in cities, suburbs, and rural towns. Another misconception is human trafficking is only related to sexual acts. Although sex trafficking is a major form of human trafficking, there has been a substantial growth in forced labor in both legitimate and illegitimate labor industries including restaurants and hotels, domestic service, and agriculture. The biggest misconception is people who fall prey to trafficking will seek help to free themselves of their situation. This misconception can be quite misleading as human trafficking has been able to continue to flourish because it victims are more likely to hide their servitude because of their fear of retribution by the traffickers, including danger to their