Assume that being moral means accepting obligations toward others – as distinct from being amoral, and concerned exclusively with
one’s own welfare. Outside of family and
such as contractual obligations, there is no logical reason to suppose that those obligations differ toward different
people. There would be no reason to
assign a lesser right to your consideration to an African peasant,
than to Devonshire farmworker.
The implications of that logic for the morality of immigration and overseas aid policy would seem to be:
- -- either that
immigration policy should not prevent the African peasant from coming to
Britain;
- - or that overseas aid should compensate the African
peasant for his loss of the advantages of doing so.
(UK
overseas aid now amounts to about 0.6 percent of GDP, or about £150 a year per person)
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