A group of people feel that certain things ought to be done a certain way, and they have opinions about it. They get together and wish to make their opinions known.

Thus, we have Amnesty International, Greenpeace and the KKK.

But that all aside, I think it's easy to talk about how annoying some groups of people are until you've been in a situation where such a topic actually affects you.

I may not give a flying hoot about child labor, simply because I was never made to work in adverse conditions and such. If I did, however, I'd have an opinion about it. Some people though, who have never been exposed to child labor, may feel that they understand it and they may feel that it's wrong, and would want to express it. Try to make it stop.

Why make it stop?

Answer it like this:

Why would Jehovah's Witnesses keep coming to my door a 6 AM in the morning? I can tell you, it's not for the beating I'll give them or the milk and cookies I give out for free on weekdays.

Many of us give an ear to what Amnesty or Greenpeace have to say, but won't listen to the KKK or neo-nazis. Because right there, we have an opinion.

And since all of us have opinions, all of us should have opinions.

The moral of this story is, let Amnesty bark.