With "celebrity" comes Influence & where a sport is developing, with vulnerabilities present there are people who act in good faith but others .. not so much.
When it comes to power and authority, the ability to direct comes with it responsibility, now more than ever considering the sport has opened up to a greater demographic, including children 10 and younger.
Business owners, influencers, sponsors, or anyone with leadership qualities has a duty to ensure that guiding others within the context of a sport is done in good faith and complies with the rules of society.
However, there are individuals that see Tricking and who hold criminal intent - if it's evading responsibilities related to their business and position, or if it's intentionally leading children into a life of crime along with them, we benefit from the rules of society, which means we need to protect the rules of society. Within the context of Tricking, this means that the sport is not a sandbox opportunity for exploitation but instead a chance to develop positive qualities & make positive impacts that contribute towards the greater good and help advance the sport in the right direction.
Without education and awareness of such topics, and being that many Trickers are young, it's easy to make mistakes, but despite the fact that everyone makes mistakes the greatest measure of a person is their ability to accept the error in their ways and to change who they are - I'm writing to advocate for internal self reflection, self awareness & the development of internal strength to make the necessary changes to see that athletes not create or participate in crime groups.
Yo my name is David Milner and I fight crime in Tricking. Today I'm writing about the stuff we don't really (but should) learn in school as related to business management, but also just social dynamic.
Human Trafficking is a serious offence.
If I could summarize it easily, it's about deceiving people into making choices & exploiting the outcome of those actions, typically for a financial/labour/sexual gain. Making informed decisions is where consent is legitimized, which means that by being dishonest about who you are, your intentions & encouraging people to do things that they might otherwise not do, people's sense of trust & emotional development can be harmed and this becomes highly aggravated when it involves children.
In Tricking there are a lot of businesses that intend to establish themselves and to form teams, and essentially sponsor athletes. These business owners may have connections into the industry, and might be seeking talent & potential that they could essentially place their mark on, and generate profit from. There isn't anything inherently wrong with this, especially if your business is accurately registered, and that the sponsorship program is one that is legitimately established. The problem is that there are people that might take shortcuts, or worse, there could be the intentions of seeing the Tricking community as a place where athletes develop trust and are later directed off-site to intentionally concealed locations where they might participate in activities that might not be appropriate.
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