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This is exactly why restricting immigration to Good Wise Submissive immigrants is bad, though.
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Nobody said submissive. Submissive is the opposite of wise. You need to embody the wisdom of your home culture, transmit it, and acquire the wisdom of the new culture. This takes boldness and struggle.
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You're right. I'll retract it as an overstatement.
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I continue to maintain that restricting immigration to a subset of 'people who can handle it,' however defined, is paternalistic and largely unimplementable, because the quality of judgement required to make it effective is unavailable at scale.
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Local problems can be pragmatically solved, there is no universal rule. Every community should let in the amount of outsiders according to its own needs and ability to handle the capacity.
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I feel that both needs and ability are pragmatically enhanced by completely open borders, personally.
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I hope you understand the limits of that ideological position. It works only as long as the waves of immigrants are, as you said "good and wise" enough to be a positive sum to their new community. that isn't always the case. the degenerate case is literally a hostile invasion.
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pragmatically, it's amazing that we have a pretty good historical track record of that usually being the case (in the last 200ish years of American immigration history anyway). should we assume that will always be the case though?
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