Your moral relativism is not just relative but irrational.
Ain't that a pleonasm? You accuse my moral relativism of being relative?
I accuse water of being wet.
The direct and indirect consequences are real and cost taxpayers (the victims in this case), even allowing for sales taxes they pay, a lot of money.
You don't know that. You don't know how much they bring to your economy by their labor. Or how much money they allow companies to save up, and thu turn a better profit. You just bring general statement that supports your political ideology without any factual backing.
And fostering a culture of willful disregard for our laws is erosive.
I do not say keep fostering them. I say spend your focus on more damaging crime.
How many laws of which kind are you allowed to break and still be a 'good person'? In this case, he's only still a 'good person' because you, in your infinite wisdom, have decided that breaking our immigration laws is morally and ethically acceptable.
Because a moral person is somebody who, by definition, hold up his own morality system and respects it. An immoral person is somebody who doesn't follow his own feeling of right and wrong. An amoral person is somebody who has no moral system.
I define that good person to still be a good person because he broke a law he feels is unjust to have the freedom of work and live where he wishes. Ain't that the whole point of America? I ain't saying it be bad or good. I just putting a little moral relativity into the debate, by pointing out that your arguments seems to cater to your own choir. You define moral "realities" such as "crossing the border makes you a bad person", which makes everybody an automatic loser in the argument.
It's not a matter of "how many laws", it's a matter of "which laws". Would somebody who broke into a plantation during the pre-civil war period to free slaves be an immoral person? Or those who helped running the Freedom Train? You better say "yes", otherwise, you're quite the hyppocrit about you denouncing moral/legal relativity.
You simply want to demonize those who are on the other side of the fence, be that fence the fence of this argument, or the fence of the border, or the fence of the law. Regardless of context, background or belief. And you do this because it's convenient to demonize, to make people hate and fear. Fear-mongering has happened a long during that debate. Fear-mongering about high criminality of the immigrants, about the killing of policemen, about people losing their jobs, "stolen" by aliens. All of these issues have been twisted, exagerated, put out of proportion nor context.
I say the people of Arkansas should focus on stopping the drug smuggling, 'cause that's a clear and definite crime that hurts the society as a whole (except firearm salesmen).
