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Discomforting Reflections • Talking About The Conversation • Talking About Nothing • God Debate Lives On • Metaphors & Money • In The Cyber Cave • The Rain Has Gone, But…
Discomforting Reflections
Dear Editor: After reading Edward Hall’s article in Issue 166 about managing migrants, I sat in my warm comfortable middle class Western home with Immanuel Kant’s ethics swirling in my brain. In my fantasy the doorbell rang, and standing outside was a family of immigrants asking to live in my house. They wanted a share of my food, of my shelter, the freedom I enjoyed, and many of the pleasures of life so obvious there. They had some values and priorities different from mine, and others that were the same. They said they would work in my garden to be self-sufficient, but they also wanted a small say in how the household would be run.
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