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The moral dangers of dirty work

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is Everyone Committed or Complicit in This System of Dirty Work?

Do you think we're all compromised or complicit in some way in this system of dirty work, even if we're not doing it ourselves yet? Definitely. I don't want to suggest that anyone who eats chicken shares the same kind of responsibility for the exploitation of the poultry workers i write about. In the prison section, i write about a woman who forms an organization called the forgotten majority because her son ends up getting swept up in florida's incredibly punitive criminal justice system. So is she omplicit in the same way? No, right? She's trying to shed light on this system.

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