Clockwork Orange Doubletree Resident ( 160.36.35.157) on 11/17/2015 - 10:16 a.m. says: ( 455 views , 6 likes , 1 Disagree )
"Refugees"
Bring them.

Yeah, it's hard. Yeah, there may be some danger. But this is part of who we are.

I've been tossing this around in my head for a few days and I know it's complicated. I understand why people are scared. But fear is no excuse for turning people away. You pause, you weigh the dangers, you think about how best to protect yourself from radical elements getting in, and then you find a way to #badword#ing do it. Sack up, red state governors. Grow a pair and dig down to find what it takes to do your part.

"The homeless, the tempest-tossed" . . . they are the stuff of which America is made.

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"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things but I'm not absolutely sure of anything and then many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask, "Why we are here?" and what that question might mean. I might think about it a bit and then if I can’t figure it out then I go on to something else.

But I don't have to know an answer, I don’t have to . . . I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose which is the way it really is as far as I can tell possibly. It doesn’t frighten me."

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Richard Feynman, "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" (1981)