Reply #273: Moral debts? We all have them.

[mac56]

Some choose to ignore theirs.

We all benefit from decisions our ancestors made, and actions they took. Some legal, some not. They wanted to work and feed their families, often in the face of considerable pushback from those who got here first in the previous wave.

Would you have pulled up the ladder back then? Demanded that great great grandfather Lumberjack Jeff be banished to wherever he was from? I think not.

What's different about things now?

Don't fall for the the divisive RW crap implicit in this whole topic. Like so many wedge issues, the BFEE doesn't ever intend to resolve this - they just want it to fester. Think of Nixon's Southern Strategy.