and even if in fact Uzbekistan has lower taxes because it has fewer Swedes and Swedes have a genetic predisposition to raise taxes, someone migrating from Sweden to Uzbekistan for lower taxes needn’t be aware of that and needn’t have any preference for not being around Swedes.
Of course, one consequence of this is that if enough Swedes migrate they’ll destroy the aspect of Uzbekistan that attracted them in the first place.
In any case, assuming for the sake of argument that there is indeed a positive correlation between being “protected” from immigrants and supporting letting more of them in: I don’t understand how your reply is responsive to what I wrote. It seems exactly parallel to this: “Many people advocate prison reform for the sake of the prisoners.” “Oh year? Well, a lot of those people prefer to live in places with lower crime rates.” Which is true enough, but hardly relevant. There’s no inconsistency between wanting some group of people to be better off, and having a personal preference for not living near a lot of them.
It is hypocritical in the original sense of the term, the one from which the word’s negative connotations derive, i.e., a leader who insists that the group make sacrifices for the “greater good” without participating in those sacrifices himself.
they’ll destroy the aspect of Uzbekistan that attracted them in the first place.
Until the number of Swedes in Uzbekistan is extremely large, it’ll presumably still be better than Sweden in that respect.
It is hypocritical in the original sense of the term
That doesn’t actually seem to be the original sense of the term, at least according to my reading of the OED, but I don’t think it matters. Anyway, let’s suppose you’re right and some advocates of liberal immigration policies are hypocrites in that sense. I don’t see how that’s evidence that the policies are bad, nor do I see how it’s responsive to what your comment was a reply to (namely, a claim that many people advocate liberal immigration policies for the benefit of the immigrants).
I’m still curious about “how strong, and how many”, by the way. I assume, from what you said on this point, that you have figures; I’d love to see them.
Of course, one consequence of this is that if enough Swedes migrate they’ll destroy the aspect of Uzbekistan that attracted them in the first place.
It is hypocritical in the original sense of the term, the one from which the word’s negative connotations derive, i.e., a leader who insists that the group make sacrifices for the “greater good” without participating in those sacrifices himself.
Until the number of Swedes in Uzbekistan is extremely large, it’ll presumably still be better than Sweden in that respect.
That doesn’t actually seem to be the original sense of the term, at least according to my reading of the OED, but I don’t think it matters. Anyway, let’s suppose you’re right and some advocates of liberal immigration policies are hypocrites in that sense. I don’t see how that’s evidence that the policies are bad, nor do I see how it’s responsive to what your comment was a reply to (namely, a claim that many people advocate liberal immigration policies for the benefit of the immigrants).
I’m still curious about “how strong, and how many”, by the way. I assume, from what you said on this point, that you have figures; I’d love to see them.