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Crime and Terrorism are Poor Rationales for Immigration Restrictions
(NA) Dramatic recent incidents have heightened calls to impose severe restrictions on immigration in order to curb crime and terrorism. By all means we should punish violent criminals and terrorists, whatever their background. But crime and terrorism risk are bad rationales for immigration restrictions. I covered the terrorism angle in some detail in a 2022 article for the Verfassungsblog website. Virtually everything I said then still applies. To briefly summarize: 1) the risk is low, 2) restricting liberty […]
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Ainda estamos presos no Egito, escravizados por n… Leonardo Brelaz
Ainda estamos presos no Egito, escravizados por nossos medos e desejos, nos curvando diante de faraós invisíveis e ignorando a direção de Deus.
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Climate Change
I like a lot of the ideas behind Anarcho-Capitalism, but I fear it would swiftly destroy the planet. Prices are obviously cheaper if you ignore the environmental impacts of your decisions, and I don’t think the commoners would care enough about the environment to pay higher prices, as each individual would say “I alone cannot make a positive nor negative impact” I feel we need a government for this… submitted by /u/Cogadhtintreach [link] [comments]
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Hopefully Milei is able to get this passed in Argentina to show us it can be done here
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Tweet Phil Gramm and Robert Topel, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, make the case for more open immigration. Three slices: In a country with widespread use of quotas, preferences and set-asides, we seldom see unadulterated merit, especially in academics. As board members of a foundation that awards scholarships based on merit and financial need, we have seen what merit looks like. The findings are important enough to share. ….. When awarding scholarships, the foundation ignores applicants’ race […]
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Any history of an ancap society?
Theory only goes so far without experiments, while I do admit that the logic makes sense, I’m wondering if this has been successful in the past? submitted by /u/IsshikiOtsutsuki [link] [comments]
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Surveillance Self-Defense: 2024 in Review
This year, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of our Surveillance-Self Defense (SSD) guide. How’d we celebrate? We kept at it—continuing to work on, refine, and update one of the longest running security and privacy guides on the internet. Technology changes quickly enough as it is, but so does the language we use to describe that technology. In order for SSD to thrive, it needs careful attention throughout the year. So, we like to think of SSD as a […]
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