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Yes, we need to apportion blame equally between a couple of parents just trying to live their lives and the government of the most powerful nation on the planet
by mikeash 7y ago
Yes, we need to apportion blame equally between a couple of parents just trying to live their lives and the government of the most powerful nation on the planet. Wouldn’t want to be unfair.
This is the same argument used to justify reporting DACA recipients back to countries they can’t remember, and to justify putting migrant children in concentration camps along the Mexican border. It’s sickening! When did we decide that some words on paper matter more than our duty to protect the innocent?
- RHSeeger 7y agoThe children can complain about their situation. The parents should not complain about the children's situation because the parents actively chose to put their children in that situation. The rules are bad. The children are in a bad situation. The parents don't get to pretend they didn't contribute to that situation.
- mikeash 7y agoWhy not? Why can’t people complain about unjust laws they could have avoided? Why is it so important to control who gets to complain that you give that question more attention than the problem of innocent children being victimized by bad laws?
- sverige 7y agoThe children are being victimized by their parents' bad decisions to break existing law, not by the law itself. Whatever happened to the idea of personal responsibility and the accountability of parents to make good decisions for their children?
- mikeash 7y agoWhy do lawmakers have no personal responsibility for the consequences of the laws they enact?
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