Thank you for your thoughtful and well written posts. You certainly refute the jus soli crowd much better [and probably at lot faster] than I ever could.
But I had to tell you that the particularly far-fetched scenario you posted above made me LMAO!
Keep up the good work.
But I had to tell you that the particularly far-fetched scenario you posted above made me LMAO!
Keep up the good work.
Thank you for the kind words!(I get plenty of the other kind often enough! :) ) It was intended to be humorous. Nothing makes a better argument then full fledged laughter at other people's foolish ideas.
My post (rather the discussion it provoked) had the further benefit of making me realize that citizenship based on emerging from the womb in a specific place is very much like the liberal argument regarding unborn children. Their argument is that they are not persons UNTIL they are born. This is like the argument of the birth inside the borders crowd. To them, a person isn't a citizen unless they are born somewhere or other. Carrying it out to it's logical conclusion makes it a ridiculous argument, while the Citizenship given by parents only looks all the stronger. Again, thanks for the comments.