• nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 hours ago

    Everyone has one life to live. Most people younger than 60 have had next to no control over the US government through any phase of their lives - hard to rationalize this being “their own” mess. Telling these people that they must risk their lives, rather than seeking better ones is pretty ethically problematic.

    And on the other side of the coin, that is the exact same rhetoric used by racists and xenophobes to argue against asylum seekers.

    (Note: This really doesn’t apply to the tax-dodging shitheads who are avoiding paying for the societal benefits that they enjoy.)