Of Nations and Men

 

Yesterday at church much was made of the necessity to shelter dreamers from deportation, because it’s the “charitable” thing to do.

It is, of course, the charitable thing to do to look after those who need it, but there is an epistemological confusion when one applies moral standards meant for individual humans to whole nations.

I keep running into this with the idiots that think the only time we should use our military abroad is when we DON’T have a guiding interest in doing it, too, and i...