Now, I’m not going to get into the whole immigration debate…

Because, for one thing, Steven Taylor already made the point: until Mexico has an economy worth staying in, nothing’s going to fix the damned thing.  Period.

It’s just that the whole thing reminds me repeatedly how much I hate it when I hear people squawk over and over again about how x is bad because it’s illegal.

There are a lot of laws on the books that have no relationship to either morality and/or reality.  The law is not fixed.  It’s supposed to be malleable.  Making something illegal does not set it in amber as permanently, for all time, incontrovertibly, unarguably WRONG.

In fact, the vast majority of the time all it does is demonstrate that thanks to our many and varied modern conveniences, there are too many people floating around with too much time on their hands.  Which, you know, wouldn’t be a problem if they could do something productive instead of being a bunch of thieving busybodies.  But then, we’ve treated that sort of thing as productive in this country for so many years I don’t figure we’ll ever disabuse folks of the notion that it’s a noble way to spend their time.

*sigh*

In any case, illegal is not equal to wrong.  Get over it.  And speed a little, won’t you?  because if I get trapped behind one more person doing 5 mph under the limit, I might just lose my mind.

1. Deb,

   Exactly on the illegality issue.  It drives me nuts as well, because we aren’t talking about moral absolutes here.  Indeed, the law hasn’t always been the way it is now.  There was a time when the behaviors we consider illegal now were not illegal. 

   The behavior in question is illegal because we say it is and it is possible for us to say that it isn’t.

   S

   Posted by Steven Taylor  on  06/28  at  01:49 PM  from 

2. Shit, Mexico’s solution to their own deficit is to EXPORT THEIR CITIZENS.

   And I’m not going to get into the debate, either, because I usually end up arguing with MYSELF due to the fact that 1) I grew up in a border town and 2) I worked for immigration attorneys for a lot of years.

   But as to your post, I will say one thing, courtesy of said immigration attorney:  Illegal is just a sick bird. 

   Posted by  on  06/28  at  03:45 PM  from 

3. You can’t speed in Fresno, too many speed traps,
   but I went by one of those radar signs in Santa Clara, even though my speedometer said 30, the radar sign said 25.

   Posted by  on  06/29  at  12:35 PM  from 
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