If you don’t live under a rock you probably have heard of the name Ashton Kutcher once or twice in your lifetime. If you don’t know him, he is an A-list actor who got his breakout role as Michael Kelso on the hit tv series “The 70s Show.”

He is a well-known actor. What a lot of people don’t know is that he is more than just an attractive, arrogant actor as most people perceive these people. Kutcher gave up his acting career to stop human trafficking.

At 39 Kutcher co-founded Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, which builds a software to fight human trafficking, with his ex-wife (Demi Moore) in 2009. So roughly nine years ago, he didn’t know it yet, he was going to save thousands and thousands of lives. In total, this tool has identified 6,000 victims of modern slavery in six months.

Having two children himself, this is something that has truly hit home for him more than it ever has before. He has seen things that no person should ever witness, terrible actions put upon kids that are his own children’s age. He has completely stalled his acting career to take on this battle that he believed is something worth giving up his stardom for.

Before you bad mouth another actor, take a step back and do your research on them before you begin to put labels on them. Yes, most actors have a rep for being arrogant and for basically disregarding the rest of the population and living in their own world.

However, people like Kutcher give us hope for not only the people that hold some sort of power in this world but for society itself. He has no background in fighting this battle, but he still continues to do it and he has left his mark.

Thank you, Mr. Kutcher, I tip my hat to you and for all that you have done.