RISING ANTI-CAPLANISM – THE MOVEMENT AGAINST OPEN BORDERS I go back and forth on

RISING ANTI-CAPLANISM – THE MOVEMENT AGAINST OPEN BORDERS

I go back and forth on Brian Caplan. I agree on almost everything is but his stand on immigration and his argument against calculation getting blown out of proportion by giving higher priority to incentives. That’s silly. They’re two sides of the same coin, and neither has meaning without the other. He had an opportunity to clarify an issue and just clouded it. And that’s been a problem for me and the movement.

There is a bit of an anti-Caplan movement building in the conservative intellectual community. Which, I think is only driven by his immigration stance.

I can’t expect him to think differently. Any more than I can be expected to disavow my ancestors.

But it’s a preference, not a truth.

Open immigration is incompatible with the preservation of individual, several, private property rights.

Period. We didn’t know that. Now we do.

Conservatives didn’t know that homosexuality was genetic and in-utero, not a choice. But they stick to their position out of religious conviction, even when they know the rational reasoning.

Libertarians stick to the fantasy that property was a moral preference, rather than a reflection of a reproductive strategy, that is in opposition to the desires of the majority of people on the planet.

It’s illogical to hold to a position when the evidence is contrary to your beliefs.

Open borders must require symmetrical respect for property rights. And open borders and democracy are a direct opposition to property rights.