Today I'm just not sure where to begin describing current events. People in Central America are being deceived into thinking entry into the United States is suddenly free and easy, that new laws have been passed to accommodate them. When the truth is that no new law exists and they are not accounted for. Some of these people are likely to die in our care because we aren't equipped to deal with the human needs involved.
Some may suspect a great incompetence is responsible for this disaster in the making, but I suspect something closer to evil. People are being tricked into becoming pawns by people who are more than willing to risk those pawns' lives.
While I'm not certain who these manipulators are, I can be pretty sure they are people who have little to no respect for the individuals they claim to to try and help. They are almost assuredly amongst the believers in the "greatest common good" that I have just last week explained is no good at all, but a destroyer of real good.
We should all beware whenever we see someone advancing an argument along the lines of philosopher Jeremy Bentham's words, "It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong." These seemingly reasonable words are morally bereft in a number of ways I wont touch all of here. But most to the current point the good of the many does not outweigh and can never outweigh the good of the individual. For we are all individuals and anything that treats one individual's good goals as rubbish to be pushed aside for the sake of the many diminishes not just that single individual but all of us.
And so too can be said of anything that abuses the ambitions of individuals to achieve some collective good.
People, mostly children, are in danger today. May those who manipulated things so as to put them in this danger be exposed and punished.
And no, this is not a threat. My wish is that legal justice catch up with them. My only call to civilians is to stop trusting any source that has led you or your friends into this.
May God be with you.
Some may suspect a great incompetence is responsible for this disaster in the making, but I suspect something closer to evil. People are being tricked into becoming pawns by people who are more than willing to risk those pawns' lives.
While I'm not certain who these manipulators are, I can be pretty sure they are people who have little to no respect for the individuals they claim to to try and help. They are almost assuredly amongst the believers in the "greatest common good" that I have just last week explained is no good at all, but a destroyer of real good.
We should all beware whenever we see someone advancing an argument along the lines of philosopher Jeremy Bentham's words, "It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong." These seemingly reasonable words are morally bereft in a number of ways I wont touch all of here. But most to the current point the good of the many does not outweigh and can never outweigh the good of the individual. For we are all individuals and anything that treats one individual's good goals as rubbish to be pushed aside for the sake of the many diminishes not just that single individual but all of us.
And so too can be said of anything that abuses the ambitions of individuals to achieve some collective good.
People, mostly children, are in danger today. May those who manipulated things so as to put them in this danger be exposed and punished.
And no, this is not a threat. My wish is that legal justice catch up with them. My only call to civilians is to stop trusting any source that has led you or your friends into this.
May God be with you.
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