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RE: "No-Go Zones" - How Muslims are Taking Over Europe (includes sources)

in #steemit8 years ago

Thanks for asking. I don't think there is a pragmatic appeal to Islamophobia - the potential danger of interacting with a Muslim is so minute that the most pragmatic approach to minimizing danger would be to limit yourself to no interaction with anyone, rather than placing that focus on the Islamic. In other words, there's no sense to targeting Muslims as a way to minimize danger - everyone is more or less equally dangerous.

Additionally, and perhaps most obviously, we can consider moral ethical reasoning - Islamophobia is wrong, for it places fear from a culture which has no basis for that assumption. Does that make sense? Again, I appreciate the discussion.

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Then I think it also follows that there is no utilitarian/pragmatic appeal to passports.

That's a very interesting line of argument, could you provide more on your thoughts on this?

Personally, I don't think there is a pragmatic use for passports - the potential danger of the undocumented is so minute that the most pragmatic approach to minimizing danger would be to limit yourself to no interaction with anyone, rather than placing that focus on the undocumented. In other words, there's no sense to targeting the undocumented as a way to minimize danger - everyone is more or less equally dangerous.

Additionally, and perhaps most obviously, we can consider moral ethical reasoning - undocumentaphobia is wrong, for it places fear from a lack of documentation which has no basis for that assumption.