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This fails the morality and ethics test. Jews do it too with HIAS, which Mayorkas once headed, which thereby fails the ethics test even worse. I am sure there are many other ‘religious’ groups working some angle of the immigration scam and profiting handsomely. I do not know of any Buddhists groups involved in immigration scams and I hope there are none. The Abrahamics all seem to have a very passionate and active sense of what moral behavior is. And this seems to lead to many ethically very low interpretations. In Buddhism, morality is understood more as ‘coolness’ (shila) which allows or encourages thinking more deeply before acting. If a person is healthy and can work but poor, Buddhism is OK with temporary help to get them going but not permanent handouts. Scamming taxpayers to make money on able-bodied immigrants is actually immoral in Buddhism because you are doing neither the taxpayer nor the immigrant any good at all. You are duping the taxpayer and stealing while encouraging dependency and law-breaking in the immigrant. Moreover, you yourself, the ‘religious’ person posturing as a moral person, are also harming yourself with egregiously selfish behavior for mere money or conquest, if that’s how you see it. If that is how you see yourself, as a conqueror, you are not. You are just a parasite, a lowly piece of shit. ABN
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