On this, as on some other issues, Stossel pretends that the costs of personal behavior are not overwhelmingly imposed on society as a whole. “In a vacuum,” one can say homosexual behavior is a private choice, but we are not in a vacuum. It has been demonstrated that homosexuals will impose on everyone else to further their own counter-culture.
His position on immigration is wrong for the same general reason: we are not in a theoretical environment. IF we had a totally free labor market; IF we had no welfare state; IF laws were enforced firmly and quickly; IF there were no organized ethnic advocacy ... then unrestricted immigration could shake out in the free market.
Previous large scale immigration was absorbed with less disruption because we were closer to that ideal situation, but it’s absolutely impossible now to ignore the realities - except for someone who is choosing to deceive himself and us for his own agenda.
You are totally right.
I hope to ping this tonight, have been very busy with a house guest but need to catch up on a few things including pings!
Stossel is seriously out to lunch on many, many issues. And you hit the nail on the head. Sort of a case of “If everything was all different, everything would be all different!”
Not exactly a compelling argument.
Oh, and the laws of nature and human (fallen) nature would among the things that have to be all different.