Let's Rationalize for a Second

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Let's imagine for a moment that I am a very well-respected doctor in your small local community. I have done great things over the years, and no one got hurt. No one died. I actually diagnosed some things, cured some things, and was even a pillar of my community. One day it is learned I never was a doctor at all. I am essentially an "undocumented physician." I had good intentions. I just wanted to feed my family, and being a doctor offered me a good salary to do that. So, I opened a practice. After all, all I wanted a better life. So what if I didn't play by the rules and actually go to medical school and earn my credentials? Does it matter? Should it matter? Even if I broke the law but no one was caused any harm. That can be overlooked, right? I was just doing what I had to do, and my intention was never to do anyone any harm, even if what I did was against the law. I should be able to keep my practice after it's found out, right? I should be able to continue to be a doctor, right? Even if I am not a doctor. Even if I broke the law. We can forget about the law because my intentions were good, not bad. Now, ask yourself why someone who came to this country illegally should get to stay even if they were only here for a better life and hurt no one for a very long time and built families and homes and became productive members of society? The law is the law, and if you break it, you don't get to keep the benefits breaking the law afforded you. Like the doctor, you don't get to keep your practice, and you don't get to be a doctor anymore. And the consequence that you should be kicked out of your practice is a reasonable one, just as much as not being an American citizen should get you kicked out as well. If what you say you are isn't real, and if the credentials that allow you be that aren't real or don't exist... You don't get to be "it." Period. And no one should have to pretend you are and let it slide, and let you continue to be "it" just because no one was ultimately harmed by it.