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Thursday, December 30, 2010


I agree to a large extent that mentally disabled workers should be legally employed and well treated.

Mentally disabled people are normally perceived by others as ‘dangerous’ people. Thus, not many employers are willing to hire them. As an illustration, if two people came for a job interview, but one of them with mentally disability. Which one would you probably employed? Definitely not the one with disability I guess.

I seriously think that sweatshops should receive several legal punishments for their doings. Mentally disabled workers are not there to be allegedly enslaved in deplorable conditions! Although with disability, they are after all a human being like us, with thoughts and feelings. We should know that disabled people deserve to be treated with the same respect and given the same opportunity as everyone else has.

They can accomplish the same task as us, just that they may require longer time. This does not necessarily means that employers have the right not to give them any wages. However, in the case of Huashan Gaojia briquette factory owner Qu Fuhong, she did not pay those mentally ill workers of hers. Instead those workers eat the same meal as she does, and ahe buys them cigarettes and alcohols. I think this is alright, as she did not look down and mistreat them.

To sum up, disabled people should be treated with respect. Remember, they have feelings just like you! Don’s treat them as inferior.. they are just different.

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