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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

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Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.
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If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.
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There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.
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The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month
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