Sometimes, I wonder why I read so much Reacher, and it works out consistently. I won’t get disappointed, I know justice will take place, and I guess I know how it would end, no matter how crazy the story gets. Is it predictable? Yeah, sure. But sometimes, if you’re gonna spend a good few hours reading, you want to know how your next few hours of reading will turn out. That’s always Reacher and Poirot for me.
This story hit on some trigger topics, namely human trafficking. I suppose anyone reading my blog would most probably not read Jack Reacher, so this wouldn’t be much of a spoiler. In any case, humans moving around illegally is really an issue of such systemic frustration. There must be a reason why a human being would feel more threatened in their home state, to determine that moving across country borders illegally would be better than staying in their home country.
I’m definitely writing this from a place of entitlement and privilege. I don’t think anyone in Singapore imagines being an illegal immigrant anywhere else, even though the cost of living is so high here. We enjoy the safety of Singapore, and also the ideal of meritocracy, where we can earn our keep. We think things should be fair, and that’s how everything should be. But the rest of the world does not work that way. In fact, maybe it’s only in countries like Singapore where we can wiggle away with fairness. And if something is not fair, then we would complain about it.
But truly, human trafficking is such a difficult and frustrating issue. I have no clue how to suggest help, and it makes me feel sad about humanity. Is there a way out of it? And in my Christian thought, how can the Church, or the Christian change these issues? Or if not, then how do we encourage other world leaders to deal with them?
Just such a dark world sometimes.
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