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ianm218yesterday at 8:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

This simplification is very small. #2 is almost literally self evidently true.

Most of the disagreement is where a given country should be on the spectrum of zero immigration and fully open immigration.

You can know we have the right to set strict regulations, and also object to driving smart hardworking people away from your country for no reason.


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Longliustoday at 12:31 PM

>You can know we have the right to set strict regulations, and also object to driving smart hardworking people away from your country for no reason.

But the crux of the problem is this - many of the immigrants we've been sold on as being "smart hardworking people" have not been that and often been the opposite. Your side seems incapable of grappling with the fact that it has fundamentally lost the trust of the electorate on this issue and seems entirely uninterested in doing anything to regain this trust by overhauling the way we filter prospective immigrants.

elil17yesterday at 8:37 PM

I would say that #1 is almost self evidently true (I mean, obviously it's not because so many people disagree).

It seems obvious to me that there is no moral reason that some people should only be allowed to live in certain places.

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