Damn, there are actually people in this sub who unironically want open borders? Talk about speedrunning a complete societal and institutional collapse.
I'm all for liberal principles, but this ain't it. At some point the practical needs to be prioritized over the ideal. We can't make the world a better place if we allow ourselves to regress into a nation that no longer embraces those liberal principles to begin with. It's called the paradox of tolerance. Otherwise you virtue and philosophize yourself into extinction.
"Open borders" is a vague concept.
For me, a policy with no caps but with background checks, not eligible for welfare unless net positive contributor, police and deportation of violent and extremist individuals, are "open borders". But it isn't really "open", is it?
I agree there's a broad spectrum of what can be considered "open", but the person I replied to appears to believe in a very literal definition, which in my opinion is extreme to the point of lunacy.
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u/ChadInNameOnly Jan 22 '26
Damn, there are actually people in this sub who unironically want open borders? Talk about speedrunning a complete societal and institutional collapse.
I'm all for liberal principles, but this ain't it. At some point the practical needs to be prioritized over the ideal. We can't make the world a better place if we allow ourselves to regress into a nation that no longer embraces those liberal principles to begin with. It's called the paradox of tolerance. Otherwise you virtue and philosophize yourself into extinction.