Originally Posted by Zichao

Immigrants create demand too.

Unlikely to be solvent demand... Unless we're talking about rich immigrants running away with lots of portable wealth. Otherwise, they need jobs for their demand to be solvent. Like everyone else. And we haven't been able to generate enough jobs for our own population already...

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Sailing off and ignoring a bunch of starving babies is a tad different from buying a laptop that may contain parts that have come from a war zone.

Maybe from an emotional response point of view. But I would suspect it is not from a logical (epistemological, if you will) morality point of view.

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Sure if you look at it from some sort of divine autistic point of view it boils down to the same thing, but legally and sentimentally speaking it isn't.

Ah, okay. You do think it's the same from a logical standpoint. I guess I am both divine and autistic...

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Originally Posted by FredFredson

The actual regs: Again it is likely that the Captain (master) of the AC was given permission to proceed, but the authorities then failed to follow up. If he was not given such authorization then he is in breach of these obligations. If he did not record the presence of the distressed vessel he and his crew are incompetent!

Anyhow, the French got a law for non-assistance to endangered people...


Non-assistance à personne en danger - Wikipédia

(Funnily enough, the American and Canadian systems do have such laws... Either they are all naturally altruistic and need no legal prodding or... )

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