The Ethics of Immigration
The Ethics of Immigration
with Daniel Bessner
This week’s conversation with Daniel Bessner ends with a debate about immigration. Danny argues that, as the global hegemon, the US has an “ethical responsibility” to take in migrants who have been affected by our country’s actions abroad. But that position on immigration, which lays responsibility for the global economy solely at the US’s feet, would prioritize migrants over Americans who feel that too much immigration harms their interests. Asking voters to think in global terms before considering their own interests is both unreasonable and unlikely to win anyone over.
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So, we are morally responsible for inventing the cell phone, and making it affordable so that 3rd world people can see what a shitty place they live in, and we must allow them to invade us, so as to make up for this.
Now that is some real Leftwaffe logic. No wonder people are leaving the left.
Please don't let this dumb bastard be in charge of anything.
He is staggering around yelling, who shit my pants.
Hint, it wasn't us.
If we are responsible for the global economy, can we (the everyday American) get a lot of credit for raising so much of the world out of poverty? How about are dampening effect on large scale war? Yes I know we have also contributed to dozens of proxy conflicts and destabilization efforts, but if the world is going to lay everything at our feet then we get to talk in the aggregate.
Since the 70s when globalization really took off the American people have seen their wages stagnate while the rest of the world, especially the developing world, have massive increases in wages and quality of life.