None heeds my pet peeve. Even though I have the likes of Jonathan Swift endorsing me. I have maintained that there are too many kids on this earth. Look wherever you will, there are just too many children swamping the place. They just will not leave us in peace. We have tried every imaginable torture on them but yet they won’t finish themselves off. We routinely abuse them, rape and sodomise them, make them work in sweatshops for hours, betray and beat them. Yet they refuse to die. Like Swift, I am a firm believer in cooking and eating them all up. That will sort out the hunger-issues faced by the poor and at least bring some calm to the world. Are we not tired of the incessant noise that kids make? IAfrica.com reports a clichéd issue is the blandest manner possible. Children in Mogadishu in Somalia are having a hard time — they are living off the streets, are being beating mercilessly; in short: they are being exploited. Well, there are two aspects to the issue. The street-kids in Mogadishu are not having it any worse than the street-kids in say, Cambodia or even in India. This, notwithstanding Somalia’s being in civil war for sometime. Human nature is the same everywhere and at all times. Children are the most vulnerable in our society. Thus it is natural that they be exploited; they cannot protest. The other crucial point we have to bear in mind when we read any report of child-abuse: since adults by their own admissions know everything better than children, why should anyone complain about kids being tortured? The adults involved in the torture always know better and if they choose to be cruel, should anyone cry foul at all?

This brings us to the question why on earth would then news agencies cry hoarse over kids falling foul of adults? The answer is simple: we want to assuage our guilt for having allowed these appalling conditions to persist. While we sit at our laptops, reading with moist eyes the unspeakable horrors of the Somalian children; we continue to use child labor at our homes, to buy sweatshop products, to abuse in the shadows some poor kid who trust us. Thus all these reports about children in Mogadishu starving or being raped are just soporifics and escape routes for our glutted imaginations. News and tragedies of the powerless innocent are just fodder for our consumption and satiety. Sadly, nothing will change the lot of children anymore anywhere. They are just there for us to exploit.

Source: IAfrica199482