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Even if it would have been better off for country X to not have some citizen emigrate, it's not a citizen's duty to fix the country they happened to have been b
by ido 11y ago
Even if it would have been better off for country X to not have some citizen emigrate, it's not a citizen's duty to fix the country they happened to have been born into.
It's like expecting every successful black person to dedicate all their time and resources to "fix the black community" - they have every right to do whatever they wish with their lives just like anyone else.
OP is welcome to go to India and try to fix poverty there if they'd like, leaving behind western comforts & privileges.
- humanrebar 11y agoWhy would anyone do anything for their community with that attitude? If I were a moderately successful 70-year-old with that attitude, I'd blow my money on vacations or cars before I died instead of leaving money to parks, schools, or starting a scholarship fund.
- ido 11y agoWhich is your right. If you want to do anything for yours or any other community, go ahead! I personally feel no greater obligation to help other Jews (I happen to be Jewish) than I do to help any other ethnicity in any other country. And just by the happenstance that I happen to have been born in 1 country (in which I no longer live) I feel no stronger obligation to mark that country as my community rather than another.