Cogs can think.

I’m going to play devil’s advocate again.

Abolishing child labour does not help anyone.

You see, children in the 3rd world actually want to work, because they really need the money to support them and their families. Child labour in itself is morally unjustifiable, don’t get me wrong, but from a practical point of view, it is actually really useful.

What we need to do is make sure there is no need for children to work. We can only do this by improving overall wealth and standard of living in the 3rd world. This means stop wasting money on pointless wars, stop spending money on arms research, and start spending it on ways to make better use of agricultural land, to more evenly distribute food and water over the world.

Thinking the prohibition of child labour makes the lives of children in the 3rd world any better is nothing but short-sighted, and it stems from our western, idealistic view on the world. It doesn’t actually solve the underlying problem of poverty.