Why are so many people simultaneously risk-averse about taking in refugees and/or immigrants, and at the same time so darn reflexively hawkish about sending troops to other countries? Doing the former is certainly no riskier than doing the latter, but the former is morally virtuous and the latter is morally suspect. One would hope that people would be risk-averse when it comes to their own moral standing: that they would be more worried about making the historically unforgivable decision of denying refuge to the persecuted, and less worried about exercising (virtuous) military self-restraint.
Pedro.
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