(December 6, 2016 at 10:44 am)Shell B Wrote: A child more than an adult, probably. An acquaintance more than a stranger, definitely. An American more than a Syrian? Nope. I couldn't even tell the difference at a glance. You're projecting your moral shortcomings onto me. Just because you think invisible borders make people more important doesn't mean the rest of the world does.
The fact that the world is full of invisible borders, and that we have words like refugee and immigrant, shows that the world does indeed think that way. Read up on genetic similarity theory.