""...there are obligations of global justice to combat Ebola and strengthen health systems and infrastructure in affected countries in the longer term. Advocates of so-called cosmopolitanism - a key position in the philosophical debate about global justice - argue that national borders have no significance and that all people, regardless of where they live, are entitled to the same education, health care services, and other social resources..."
The people in power have been creating a borderless world for at least sixty years. They have achieved functional borderlessness in the USA, using the covert revolutionary tactic "think of it always, speak of it never". Most Americans still believe we have the ability to close our borders on short notice, when clearly we do not.
In any event, Obama, his HHS secretary, his Labor secretary, his acting Surgeon General, his CDC Director - all of them would DIE before they agreed to stop the flights, because doing it would affirm our borders as actual physical objects and demonstrate that it could be done, and they are mortally opposed to both of those things.
Your post makes sense of the senseless.
The benign explanation for this madness is that these people are incompetent. And its a tempting conclusion, because stupidity is so much easier to accept than cold, steadfast willingness to sacrifice so many innocent lives to The Cause.
Wow!
Yes, Jim, I completely agree with that assessment, and I appreciate your posting it to me as I intend to show it to some others.
We are ruled by madmen. Insane, lunatic madmen.
“Global justice”.
My God.
I also believe that the potential solution that you listed is the only possible one. it isn’t going to happen any other way very sadly.
This genie is out of the bottle as well. This has the potential to be a complete disaster.
Thank you very much for your response.