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Originally Posted by jwb
I'm honestly rethinking my position against purely open borders
The one thing that makes pause is that if we want to construct any kind of robust welfare state in this country it could easily be overrun by people desperately fleeing the 3rd world.
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Isn't that a fairly standard position? I believe Milton Friedman popularized it by saying something to the effect of: you can either have free immigration or a welfare state, you can't have both.
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Originally Posted by jwb
the mass extinction is due to climate change, not lack of resources. Yes, the giant population contributes to climate change but with better technology a lot of the emissions could be avoided even with a bigger population than we have now.
Your argument is actually the foolish one since you want to fixate on one fact that we can't even change without a massive genocide rather than maybe focus on the technology which at least there's a possibility we can change it.
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OH is just looking for reasons to justify his misanthropy.