IMMIGRATION thread

[Viking]

Ugh, that's so wrong. There are a number of reasons shops are closed at night, one is the law, which is there to protect workers so they can't be forced to work all night. Another reason many shops close early is simply that they don't get a lot of customers at night and the costs would outweigh the income.

I didn't say that they where closed, but locked (i.e. the employees have all left). If I suddenly felt a strong urge to look at a real ananas right now and the stores are closed, and I don't have any ananasses here; I would have a problem. But the store is not locked as it is closed as a punishment for any potential ananas thieves; it's just a security measure.

As for security being the reason, that's such a lame excuse. If a chance of maybe ten in a million warrants heavy restrictions for everyone, then we will have to change a whole lot of other things for our security. Besides, we already have surveillance of especially all our electronic communication, why is it so hard to find the 5 terrorists among all these cellphone-using refugees?
Now we do not only need full surveillance, we also need a new Berlin wall. Nothing could possibly go wrong...

Except this reasoning is fallacious. You can take the initiative to solve one security issue without simultaneously committing yourself to solve any security issue you can possibly think of ASAP.

"There is no point in not smoking if I don't have at least five different types of vegetables for dinner tomorrow."

Be afraid, don't let the terrorists terrorize you, just be afraid all the time.

There's no need to invoke emotions; these kinds of analyses can be done entirely without them.