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by msla 3193 days ago
> And lots of people don't like foreigners.

And that's morally wrong.

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Its not. Hurting them is wrong.

I also don't like junkies. Is that also wrong? Why do you tell me what i should like, and based on what ethics do you tell me what is morally right?

What if I tell you that liking foreigners is morally wrong where I live? We don't hurt them, but we don't like them because they keep telling us what we should do, and keep trying to conquer us for a millennia? Still we live in peace since a long time, we treat our guests well, but we don't categorically like them. Each and every guest can become an individually liked person, and even unliked ones are treated fairly (given a fair trial before execution ;) Hint for autists: It was a joke)

Jokes aside: Is this immoral? Why?

It's morally wrong to hate something for an attribute they have no control over.

Is it morally wrong to hate someone who chooses to drink? Not really.

Is it morally wrong to hate someone born addicted to opioids, or born with fetal alcohol syndrome? Of course.

Being born "foreign" is no different, especially if you, as this chef does, live in a country where "nationality" is coterminous with "ethnicity" to the point multi-generational immigrant groups (ethnically Korean Japanese, for example) are considered "Not Japanese" by many Japanese people.

Nice strawman you have there!

But actually not like and hate are the same only in your dictionary.

> But actually not like and hate are the same only in your dictionary.

You're just being deliberately obtuse, now.

Personal attacks will get you banned here regardless of how bad someone else's comments are.

So will flamewars, which you've unfortunately made this site worse by participating in.

Please read the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and don't do these things again.

Is singling out one person to attack always how things work?

Maybe anti-racism is simply unpopular around here.

> And lots of people don't like foreigners.

I thought we were talking about this comment. You created a strawman, and now use derogatory comment toward me. This makes me end this discussion here.