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Because your predecessors worked to build that for you and their fellow people. Why do you think parents pay for their children's education. Why do you think ma
by esyir 7y ago
Because your predecessors worked to build that for you and their fellow people. Why do you think parents pay for their children's education. Why do you think many don't just provide the minimum, but instead go beyond that?
You did not do anything to get that. But your parents, their parents and those who came before them did, with the intention that you would.
- chimi 7y agoI understand your arguments. I'm not discounting them. I am saying I don't agree with them. It sounds dangerously like when I was just out of college and I didn't understand why something in the company was done that way and I would get a response like, "Because that's the way it's always been done." Folks in Tuvalu are going to lose the entirety of their geographical boundary to the sea. I don't see why people should be kicked out of a country because they were born in another country. The whole concept of "illegal immigrant" just seems so ... medieval. Someone isn't allowed to live and work in a land because they were born across an imaginary line in the sand? I don't get it
- coldtea 7y ago>I don't see why people should be kicked out of a country because they were born in another country One good way to "get it" is to go try stay in their country, without following their due process to become a citizen, and see what happens. A similar good way, is to go live in different countries for a while (try Syria too), and see what ideas some people have about running their countries, and consider whether you'd like people with such ideas to be a sizable minority or even majority in your country.