Editorial: What Citizens Think of the Great Wall

Emperor Qin editiorial

by:Leah Sutherland

Real China

Emperor Qin has taken hundreds of slave workers and prisoners against their wills to work on the great wall. This edict will allow the Great Wall to be built at a faster pace. This edict will ruin China’s citizens. Poor and innocent slaves being forced to work against their wills every day and night! Prisoners that have served their time, sent right to the Great Wall of China to get beaten and tortured daily.
These people that are being forced are innocent people and they are getting treated like they did something completely wrong. They have families too. They have wives and kids too. Yet they are still working day and night, for hours at a time. These people should have a choice on where they work and what they want to do with their lives. Not be forced to do hard labor everyday for years straight.
Wanting to get the great wall done is one thing, but forcing people that don’t want to do it, and make them work on it is not the right way to get it done. But of coarse, the rich and people that are not working on the great wall think differently about the workers. “Why are they making such a big deal about working? Its a job. Emperor Qin is providing them with a job. Why aren’t they happy about that?” Says landlord Wei-Teing. Its not a good job when they are getting forced into it and don’t get paid for it. Its not a job that helps provide for the family and that is fun for that matter.
China’s citizens shouldn’t be forced to do jobs that they don’t want to and don’t get paid for. Everyone only lives once and you have to make the most of it. Don’t let the government run your life; run it yourself.