- 09 Jun 2018 00:23
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Since you are morally superior, are you going to personally agree to take in a family and be responsible for their welfare and civic obedience? We, as a community, take on that responsibility. It is easy to be morally superior when the government is so large it becomes an abstraction. You are willing to do it because you don’t see yourself actually being responsible. It is ‘the government’ that is responsible. Your moral superiority is a meaningless abstraction. I expect it and even believe there is good in it for the young, but your pretense of being morally superior is both disrespectful and humorous to those who have already passed through where you are.
mikema63 wrote:Quite frankly I find this statement reprehensible, disgusting, and willfully ignorant. You are not an idiot incapable of understanding that taking a child away from their family and housing them away from everyone they have ever known is traumatizing and cruel. That you excuse this, or willfully ignore it, because you like a cruel policy that prevents people who are fleeing oppression and violence and treats them like a murderer says a great deal about your character.
The rest of the drivel that follows this statement is equally the drivel of a man driven by personal fears and selfishness to excuse open cruelty against people who deserve compassion.
These are people seeking a better life, people and children who have been oppressed, brutalized, seen family murdered, and live in poverty we would never know or have to face. And what greets them but people like you who are so overwhelmingly concerned with their own well being and fear that they can't even devise a policy that doesn't rip children from their parents. Literally unnecessary to any border enforcement policy, you could house them with their parents with not only no extra effort, but less.
But no, we must applaud traumatizing children and declare refugees on par with rapists and murders because something something harmony with nature which is an argument so wrong and made in such bad faith that I can barely fathom what happened to you in your life to make you so completely wrapped up in some vague notions rather than the living suffering of other human beings.
Since you are morally superior, are you going to personally agree to take in a family and be responsible for their welfare and civic obedience? We, as a community, take on that responsibility. It is easy to be morally superior when the government is so large it becomes an abstraction. You are willing to do it because you don’t see yourself actually being responsible. It is ‘the government’ that is responsible. Your moral superiority is a meaningless abstraction. I expect it and even believe there is good in it for the young, but your pretense of being morally superior is both disrespectful and humorous to those who have already passed through where you are.
I dream of the United Citystates of Earth, where each Citystate has a standardized border such as one whole degree of Latitude by one whole degree of Longitude.