[relyks]

Shutting down trade will make life worse for Bangladeshis (and complications for apparel companies here). Textiles and garments are huge exports for Bangladesh and those industries employ many, many people there. I'm also of the opinion that the people of a country should be considered separate from its government and military (which may not have support from its people and be corrupt)

[panarky]

I hate the relativistic argument "if you stop doing evil thing X then something even worse than X might happen".

Because that argument is always used to justify doing evil instead of doing good.

And the even worse thing might not even happen.

The world is dynamic.

If you stop trading with Bangladesh because they mistreat their people, maybe they'll stop mistreating their people to get the dollars flowing again.

Maybe the fact that we continue trading with a brutal regime is what allows the regime to remain in power.

Maybe evil thing X is just evil and we stop doing evil instead of rationalizing the evil away.