Comments on: Is Illegal Immigration Immoral? http://politicalcivility.com/blog8/2008/05/08/is-illegal-immigration-immoral/ Constructive Political Dialogue's New Home Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:03:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Reach Upward http://politicalcivility.com/blog8/2008/05/08/is-illegal-immigration-immoral/#comment-432 Fri, 09 May 2008 04:02:03 +0000 http://politicalcivility.com/blog8/2008/05/08/is-illegal-immigration-immoral/#comment-432 I liked the speed limit analogy in Sutherland's paper. I'm also with Frank (which parallels the Sutherland essay). If we didn't have a welfare state, we wouldn't worry about immigrants coming here illegally. We worry that they will consume too many public services — a worry we wouldn't have if there weren't so many taxpayer funded public services to consume. I liked the speed limit analogy in Sutherland’s paper. I’m also with Frank (which parallels the Sutherland essay). If we didn’t have a welfare state, we wouldn’t worry about immigrants coming here illegally. We worry that they will consume too many public services — a worry we wouldn’t have if there weren’t so many taxpayer funded public services to consume.

]]> by: Frank Staheli http://politicalcivility.com/blog8/2008/05/08/is-illegal-immigration-immoral/#comment-429 Thu, 08 May 2008 23:15:01 +0000 http://politicalcivility.com/blog8/2008/05/08/is-illegal-immigration-immoral/#comment-429 We wouldn't have to malum prohibitum immigration if we could just malum in se the federal government from handing out all sorts of welfarum benefitum. We wouldn’t have to malum prohibitum immigration if we could just malum in se the federal government from handing out all sorts of welfarum benefitum.

]]> by: Jeremy http://politicalcivility.com/blog8/2008/05/08/is-illegal-immigration-immoral/#comment-427 Thu, 08 May 2008 17:44:53 +0000 http://politicalcivility.com/blog8/2008/05/08/is-illegal-immigration-immoral/#comment-427 My main beef with traditional conservatives is their tendency to hold on to malum prohibitum policies with white knuckled tenacity. Utah's arcane system of liquor laws, irrational prohibitions on gambling, and increasing nanny state are examples that come quickly to mind. As a libertarian (a pragmatic libertarian but libertarian non-the-less) I apply the malum in se vs. malum prohibitum test to nearly every issue I confront. Here's hoping more conservatives will consider this principle when deciding where they stand on every issue they are faced with as you have on immigration. It makes sense to err on the side of freedom and liberty rather than regulation for regulation's sake. My main beef with traditional conservatives is their tendency to hold on to malum prohibitum policies with white knuckled tenacity. Utah’s arcane system of liquor laws, irrational prohibitions on gambling, and increasing nanny state are examples that come quickly to mind.

As a libertarian (a pragmatic libertarian but libertarian non-the-less) I apply the malum in se vs. malum prohibitum test to nearly every issue I confront.

Here’s hoping more conservatives will consider this principle when deciding where they stand on every issue they are faced with as you have on immigration. It makes sense to err on the side of freedom and liberty rather than regulation for regulation’s sake.

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