There was the usual moral wailing on ABC Radio National re refugees and so-called moral obligation, featuring Serena Parekh, author of
No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis by Serena Parekh (Oxford University Press 2020). One could spend days debunking all of this, but really, it has been done for decades. What I find odd in the extreme is that the endless immigration lobby presses ahead with their moral arguments, even though their colleagues in the cultural studies postmodernism departments have undermined almost all of their fundamental assumptions, from their own position. Those debates, such as how one justifies moral claims at all, get forgotten when the emotional issue of letting them in come up. Also, there is no discussion of whether a country, and I am thinking of Europe, which might get nuked, still has an obligation to take in refugees … is this a moral obligation for getting them equally irradiated? Really, this entire debate has been based upon the assumed stability of a world which is now about to be shaken to the core, and I predict that a little while down the track, no-one will be much concerned about these issues, if, and when, the big cannon balls fly, and hunger is the norm for ordinary folks. Oh, after the carnage no doubt there will be another big refugee thing, but somehow I think World War III will be different to the white-replacing World War II aftermath, with its massive destruction. They come, not to culturally enrich us, but to better themselves. And, I suppose I would too, if I was in their shoes. But that does not make it “moral.”
Anyway, to make things manageable, and within my Christian framework, let us consider the main argument that has been lobbed upon Christian to push mass immigration, the parable of the good Samaritan. So, lets quote the parable, as told in Luke 10:25-37: