Quote (Thor123422 @ Jul 25 2017 09:14am)
You say this while saying they shouldn't come here. Borders are artificial. If we can't take care of everybody let's just move the borders.
Your argument is contradictory.
Now you're just being argumentative.
The continents are just about the only borders that came with the Earth...and even they change, albeit over geological time scales.
Throughout history there has been "fighting for territory". This isn't new. I believe that the Romans once held England. England didn't like that, so they did something about it.
The solution you SEEM to be upholding, is that anyone who doesn't like their lot in life can just (without any effort on their part)... pack up and move to some other country...en masse.
In my day, 100,000 people showing up on some countries borders and wanting in, was called an invasion.
Look at India for example. They have some serious overcrowding problems. Do they send boatloads of 100K Indians to the EU or the US etc...and say: We're just too darn lazy to take our own lives in hand, so we want you to do it. No they don't.
They work hard, the get educated or rich and do like everyone else that worked hard....they move where they want.
They DON'T come in 100K lots with ....NOTHING and expect to just be.... taken in.
I don't know what planet YOU live on...but, things just don't work that way.
You want to get hired (taken in) by some company...you don't just appear one day and say it's your duty to take me in. No, you first gain the things (knowledge and experience) you will need to make (taking you in) worth it, to that company.
Countries work the same way.
If we don't do things this way...what we will have is what the Middle East and Africa, have now....a bunch of folks running around in tribes (with nothing anyone wants), fighting with each other all the time for table scraps.
/e Like it or not, we ALL live in a capitalist world. Each country has certain things they can export, and they work very hard to BUY their own place, under the sun.
I seriously doubt that the Far East really wants to do the cheap manufacturing for the world. But that is what they CAN do...so they do it.
I seriously doubt that the US really wanted to spend 12-16 hours a day farming or manufacturing...to buy their place in the world...but...that's what we had....so we did it.
Etc., etc., etc, for any country or continent anywhere. It's called civilization.
This post was edited by Ghot on Jul 25 2017 08:41am