@ CL I understand your points completely but then surely you could just as easily have voted yes and put it like this: "As a Catholic I believe the right thing to do would be to let them in, so I voted "yes", however I do not expect the government to actually do it and I wouldn't blame them for that because this is a secular government, not a Catholic government."
So the question is: Are we voting for what we expect from the government or what we ourselves personally think the ideal decision would be?
I voted "yes". I would vote for "with certain limitations" but I am simply not knowledgeable enough on the issue to know what those limitations would fully be, for example: I don't know what the checking for terrorists would involve before clearing a refugee and letting them in. So I decided to generalize and vote "yes".
I don't buy into the whole "One country is not obligated to let other citizens in" because from an ethical point of view I think that the sufferings of all people from all countries matter and are relevant and I care just as much about innocent refugee's sufferings from other countries than I do about the citizens in my country. I am not a very political person at all, I'm thoroughly ignorant of politics: But I am very interested in ethics and I think ethics covers the bigger picture because it doesn't deal with specific countries but the whole world, and even other species.
So the question is: Are we voting for what we expect from the government or what we ourselves personally think the ideal decision would be?
I voted "yes". I would vote for "with certain limitations" but I am simply not knowledgeable enough on the issue to know what those limitations would fully be, for example: I don't know what the checking for terrorists would involve before clearing a refugee and letting them in. So I decided to generalize and vote "yes".
I don't buy into the whole "One country is not obligated to let other citizens in" because from an ethical point of view I think that the sufferings of all people from all countries matter and are relevant and I care just as much about innocent refugee's sufferings from other countries than I do about the citizens in my country. I am not a very political person at all, I'm thoroughly ignorant of politics: But I am very interested in ethics and I think ethics covers the bigger picture because it doesn't deal with specific countries but the whole world, and even other species.
