You say your country can't handle lots of immigration? Maybe you're right. I also suspect your country is too stupid for that, if it believes haircuts should require licenses. But if you're not *horrified* by leaving behind so many sapients to suffer or die, you might be evil.
Am I being unfair? Perhaps I am. Maybe the defect is in the mind and not the soul, maybe you couldn't look a mother and her child in the eye and tell them to stay out without tears, and it's just that your mind hasn't connected that to 'limited immigration'. But it's also...
...a politically inconvenient thought, if you oppose more immigration. Even if your country really couldn't handle it, even if your country is dumb enough to have zoning boards and occupational licenses everywhere and it's easy for new voters to vote for more statism, there's...
...sure some people being left behind and screwed over by that, while you're not being screwed over. At what point does a mind that just happens to overlook all the damage and not visualize it or think about it, start to count as evil? It confuses me, honestly, I'd know to...
...hold myself responsible if I caught myself thinking that way, I'd consider my own mind to be my contracted agent to a point where I felt responsible for it in that regard. But maybe that's genuinely unrealistic for mundanes. Then am I to simply regard them as destructive...
...children, who can't possibly do better? Maybe I should, though that seems like a dangerous line of thinking for me. But then how should they regard themselves? What should someone in less control of their own thoughts, think of someone else who manages to conveniently...
...never dream or imagine or extrapolate the others who their policies are hurting, whose souls happily cheer the conveniently positive images drawn by their minds, when a policy benefits them and screws over someone else, and yet they'd cry to see it in person? Is that evil...
...or something else for which English just lacks words, something that maybe does far more damage than evil, to be held to even greater blame, except that blame is the wrong fire to hold to it because the soul doesn't see anything it could be doing wrong? I don't know, I...
...don't know how to hold others responsible if they have literally no idea how to hold themselves responsible, for their own minds' workings. Our morality only knows how to pretend that things are choices, pretend that people understand on some level when they do evil, that...
...there is something inside them to understand condemnation - or else labels them as children and innocents. I don't know how to feel about that, still less how to talk to it. I'm privileged in having a mind with the right shape to try to learn to see consequences on more...
...than one side, just like I'm privileged to have a mind that thinks linear algebra is simple. But is that cause to label everyone less privileged a child and give up on blaming them for their cheerful catastrophes? There ought to be some middle ground, but I don't know where.
Y'all ain't getting it. I'm not telling you the answer has to be open borders. I'm telling you that if you're not sad about the human costs of the closed-border policy you are, in @bryan_caplan's terms, "missing a mood".
Your country *is* that stupid. Its democracy *isn't* built to withstand the damage from voters with a lower average comprehension of economics. That doesn't change the fate of the child turned back at the border. Can your mind's eye not see them at all?
