18th June 2018, 1:58 PM
It's what they have been threatening to do for over a year, they just finally did it.
"The Democrats made this law!" Then why hasn't anyone enforced it until now? Show me the law. Show me this magic law you claim exists.
"The Bible says laws must be obeyed." Ok, first of all our laws aren't based on the bible except perhaps in the form of some inspiration, so who cares what it says? If we go off the Bible, god picks our monarch, and we obey. I don't understand how someone can reconcile democracy with theocracy. It's either one or the other. Decide.
Second of all, and more fundamentally, that's not a justification for your order to exist in the first place. Saying "the law must be obeyed" says nothing about WHICH laws should exist. If the law is monstrous, change the law.
"They're here illegally and- " I'm going to cut you off right there. There is literally no argument for this. If your position is "separate children from parents that have done no harm to them", you're wrong. Full stop. No argument can justify it. If you think it can, then let me ask you this. If you followed a series of rational arguments that concluded irrefutably that the only rational course of action, right now, this very second, is to gouge your mother's eyes out, would you? Well unless you're a psychopath, I'm guessing no, because at root level, we are not creatures of pure logic. If logic demanded such a thing, we would all gladly throw out logic in favor of empathy. Well, I don't believe for a moment logic "demands" we separate children from their parents, but even if it did I would STILL say that it's wrong, that logic itself is wrong.
"The Democrats made this law!" Then why hasn't anyone enforced it until now? Show me the law. Show me this magic law you claim exists.
"The Bible says laws must be obeyed." Ok, first of all our laws aren't based on the bible except perhaps in the form of some inspiration, so who cares what it says? If we go off the Bible, god picks our monarch, and we obey. I don't understand how someone can reconcile democracy with theocracy. It's either one or the other. Decide.
Second of all, and more fundamentally, that's not a justification for your order to exist in the first place. Saying "the law must be obeyed" says nothing about WHICH laws should exist. If the law is monstrous, change the law.
"They're here illegally and- " I'm going to cut you off right there. There is literally no argument for this. If your position is "separate children from parents that have done no harm to them", you're wrong. Full stop. No argument can justify it. If you think it can, then let me ask you this. If you followed a series of rational arguments that concluded irrefutably that the only rational course of action, right now, this very second, is to gouge your mother's eyes out, would you? Well unless you're a psychopath, I'm guessing no, because at root level, we are not creatures of pure logic. If logic demanded such a thing, we would all gladly throw out logic in favor of empathy. Well, I don't believe for a moment logic "demands" we separate children from their parents, but even if it did I would STILL say that it's wrong, that logic itself is wrong.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)