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Today at 10:28:03 AM |
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The concern by the Irish is that new immigrants are committing more crimes than the general population including knife attacks and rape. Another concern that has been brought up that I've heard is dramatically higher rates by immigrants for usage of government resources, causing a net drain for the economy.
The amazing thing is the left will supporting immigration but not on a right to travel basis. We have no talk about a right to travel or drive being protected, even though its a natural right. I have disdain for the left on this topic because they are willing to protect immigrants but not on the basis of human rights that I strongly support... instead, they pile on with the right wing accusing people of being "sovereign citizens" if they support basic human rights like travel rights. Instead its just a pragmatic alliance issue where they collect more votes to their political party and power as an upside which they view as exceeding the downside of collateral crime rates. So, big disappointment there. So, the left uses the issue for politics of the worst kind. (Politicians mantra: 1. line your pockets 2. reward your friends 3. punish your enemies).
This is quite an extreme ethical dilemma. Who wants to be the person who lost a friend, family member, or is them selves sent to the hospital or worse because they were inviting of a block of foreign people? It seems like Somalians are the specific block of foreigners in question in this case. The philosophic challenge is extreme. If 90% of Somalians committed crimes including knife point muggings, would that justify automatic denial of any and all Somalians to the area? My first intuition is YES. How about 10% though... which would still be vastly worse than the general population. Or what if Somalians did such crime at only 1% higher rates than the general population of Ireland? It would seem the intuition is then no, which then makes it a very arbitrary and subjective judgement, meaning there seems to be a flaw, unless the actual crime rate was 51% or more in which case you could argue probable cause for violence, but no population in the world is likely to be quite that bad.
Yes, I do believe that it is justifiable to physically force a large number of foreigners who are a clear drain on the economy and committing lots of crimes. I don't have the data on that, but its a good bet that is the case.
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