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Here's the skinny:
you have an idea in your head, and you can't get it straight. You have an opinion you want to express, but it's half-arsed and you can't get your head around the issues. You feel something about an accepted idea is backwards and wrong, but you don't know why. You've got this notion about something, but when you say it out loud it seems silly.
This is where you say it.
Rules of the game:
1) If someone posts here, they're not propounding an idea which is fully fledged and able to hold water. You don't get to go after it with a big stick, you try to find the core of it so that it can be expressed fully before it has to live in the wild.
2) If you really, really, really feel you have to object to an idea in this thread, the rule "You broke it, you bought it" applies - you've got to find a way of articulating the concerns in the idea which doesn't offend whatever hat you're wearing.
3) No calling of names, no abstractions from notion (e.g. "I have a worry about immigration, can we afford open borders") to poster or position (e.g. "you're a racist", "that's just neo-colonial global imperialism in a trendy new kaftan").
4) This is a cooperative venture. It won't work unless you all trust and keep the faith. Now get on with it.
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Since I've raised the topic: immigration. Clearly there's a right of asylum. Equally clearly the disparities in global wealth will cause economic migration. However, there does also appear to be a crisis in our schools, in affordable housing, and in healthcare in the UK. The greater inclusiveness of our society (greater University attedance etc.) and greater lifespans are, we are told, creating large public services bills we may not be able to pay. Does that mean we can't afford too much immigration? Could we use an indenturing system where, for example, a migrant is trained and then works for the state? A sort of national service? |
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