John Locke, born on August 29, 1632, in Wrington, Somerset, England, went to Westminster school and then Christ Church, University of Oxford. He became a highly influential philosopher, writing about such topics as political philosophy, epistemology, and education. Locke's writings helped found modern Western philosophy.
In Locke's landmark, Two Treatises of Government, put forth his revolutionary ideas concerning the natural rights of man and the social contract. Locke maintains the natural liberty of human beings; all people are born free, and the attempt to enslave any person creates a state of war (as opposed to the state of nature).
“a person who would enslave another person should be regarded as a potential threat to the life and liberty of all”
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery. It involves one person controlling another and exploiting him or her for work. Human trafficking is a business that generates billions of dollars a year. Human trafficking is not legal anywhere in the world. Instead of being held by law, victims are trapped physically, psychologically, financially or emotionally by their traffickers. Broadly speaking, human trafficking pertains to the use of a human being as a commodity for the profit of others. Trafficking often involves deceit. Workers will be told that if they pay a certain amount of money to an agent, they will be brought into outside countries and given a job of a certain kind. But sometimes the job does not exist at all; sometimes the working conditions and pay are not as they were described; sometimes the agent ends up demanding more money than he initially requested, and so forth. Sometimes, trafficker might employ direct coercion in order to get victims to leave their homes and go with them across the border. An example of this are those women that are being forced to become sex slaves. A very immoral act of some persons without