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Rational Morality Requires Amnesty for Rights-Respecting Illegal Immigrants
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Rational Morality Requires Amnesty for Rights-Respecting Illegal Immigrants

By Ari Armstrong

Jul 02, 2014
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In the 1850s in America, it was illegal to help slaves escape to freedom. In the 1940s in Germany, it was illegal to harbor Jews from the Nazis. In Islamic states today, it is illegal to criticize Islam or to shelter those who do. In such cases, it can be moral to break the law, and it is immoral to punish people for breaking such laws.

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