In regards to the article ash linked - I said parents who sent their children unaccompanied to the U.S. should also read it.
So the "I'm just" is "I'm just saying maybe those who abandon children should read the article. Because with the added knowledge, some may weigh the alternatives and decide that trying to make things better where they are might be a better option for their children than separating their children from them and sending them off into the unknown alone."
First, the fact that your response to me pointing out you're repeating yourself is to repeat yourself is just...chefkiss.gif
Second, yes, I know the above is what you were saying. There's no confusion on that point. I then made my
own point (which is a thing that happens in discussions sometimes!) about how you just want to talk about how people are hypocrites and otherwise not really engage on the topic. Your response to this has been to repeat yourself twice, adding only the words "I'm just."
The fact that someone else making their own point can throw you so much seems to illustrate what I'm saying pretty well. "Wait, but that's not what I said! You're saying different things! I don't want to talk about those things, so here's what I said again."
Why is it important to understand the double standards of the unethical?
Hey, neat trick, asking yourself questions about the thing you want to discuss to make it sound like you're having a discussion.
I didn't suggest double standards don't matter (I actually said the opposite
here). I said that calling people hypocrites doesn't make them wrong, and thus exposing double standards is not actually a substantive point about the policy the rest of us are actually discussing here.
Do you agree that things for children would get better if we didn't have people involved who ignore the problems until they find an opportune time to exploit the kids' situations for their own political gain, then refuse to rectify them even though it's within their power and is their responsibility to do so because they think continuing the kids' suffering can make a single individual they don't like look bad?
You've positively mutilated the ordinary form of a question here to make the standard "the left are hypocrites" line seem like it's connected to the topic.
Yes, it would be better. And it'd be better for the discourse in general if people only entered discussions they were interested in having, with other human beings, as opposed to seeing them as insertion points for whatever opinion they're trying to make people listen to.