SciFiFisher wrote:Gullible Jones wrote:IMO you don't have to be able to name a better system to point out brokenness in the current one.
Hope that makes sense.
I agree. It's perfectly ok for TSC to point out that the current system is broken. I was just pointing out that as a winner of the birth place lottery I am all for keeping the current system until a better one comes along.
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It's not just birthplace. I know some would like us to believe that but that is so simplistic it borders on retarded.
A citizen of a country is a person that has had time and money invested into them by the other citizens of that same country.
This particular guy is a doctor and a specialist, that's a lot of investment in a person.
To give it up based on: if we bring him in, we have to bring everyone from Africa as well or its privilege mentality, is a very naive and simplistic view of the world.
I have friends that I would do just about anything for. Lets try the same thinking as what is being proposed here.
I meet a stranger and he asks, "I borrow $5000 because I'm desperate?".
Now, if it was a friend that was desperate I'd either loan it if I had it or get a loan and give it to them if I could.
How far should I go for someone I have never met?
Well fuck, I guess my friend is a privileged bastard because I won't give a stranger $5000 based on the fact that I would do the same for a friend.
No, reality is this: we value certain people more than others and what we are willing to do for them does not equate to some global will to do the same for everyone.
If we lived any other way then there is no value on family, friendship or citizenship.
Yes, we're all members of this world. That doesn't mean I treat everyone like my family or closest friends.
Nor does it mean a country has to treat non citizens the same as citizens, for those exact same reasons.
Where I draw a distinction is when countries have reciprocating agreements and one fails to abide with the agreement.
The US is notorious for that.
But in this case, go USA.