{"id":951,"date":"2024-02-09T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/whats-wrong-with-illegal-immigration\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:45:03","slug":"whats-wrong-with-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/whats-wrong-with-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Wrong with Illegal Immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I present a number of arguments, some 'liberal,' atop<\/a> the Stack<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am well aware of the infirmity of reason, and of the stupidity and suggestibility of people, especially in this Age of Feeling and Xed-out attention spans.  And so I am well aware of just how little is accomplished by calm and careful argumentation in these dark times. But we need to have arguments at the ready for those fence-sitters, many of them decent young people, who are open to reason and have not yet been hopelessly corrupted by our decadent culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reason is for the reasonable, just as civility is for the civil.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it is not reasonable to be reasonable in all things or in relation to all persons. We live among enemies. The enemy needs sometimes to experience the hard fist of unreason, the brute rejection, the blind refusal, the lethal blow. Or at least he must be made to fear this response, and you must be capable of making it.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The good are not the weak, but those capable of  violence while remaining the masters of its exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Otherwise, are you fit for this world? <\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, it might be better not<\/em> to be fit for this world. What sort of world is it in which the good must be brutal to preserve the reign of the Good?<\/span><\/p>\n

More grist for the mill. We blog on.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I present a number of arguments, some 'liberal,' atop the Stack. I am well aware of the infirmity of reason, and of the stupidity and suggestibility of people, especially in this Age of Feeling and Xed-out attention spans.  And so I am well aware of just how little is accomplished by calm and careful argumentation … Continue reading “What’s Wrong with Illegal Immigration?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,44,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration","category-political-tactics","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}