What is compassionate about a nation having a welfare system?

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Rath said:

TheRealMafoo said:

 

The only thing that gives us freedom, is limiting the people in power with a set of rules that they must follow. To not care about those rules, is the same as not caring about freedom.

Without them, the country belongs to Washington, not the people. NZ is a total different situation. Ultimately, the Queen of England owns your country.

Sadly today, there is no diference in freedoms in your country and mine. In fact, you have more. That's because it seems many US citizens no longer care about freedom, and are willing to give it up for a country that provides for them. I for one, do care.

I do care about freedom, I just don't see any reason why as a Kiwi I should care about upholding the constitution of a country on the otherside of the world. It's not my business to.

Also the fact that the Queen technically has a lot of powers doesn't mean she does in reality. If she ever were to abuse them we'd be a republic lickity split. Its a comfortable equilibrium we have, we'll let her have a huge amount of powers over us as long as she never actually uses them.

Foreign nationals are still citizens of their country of origin, still have the rights given to them by their government, and still have an obligation to protect these rights. The city I live in (Calgary) tends to get some high profile Americans campaigning in it during presidential elections (rarely the candidates, but sometimes their spouses or other high profile members of their party) because of how high of a concentration of Americans we have in this city; having known some Americans, they still care deeply about the direction their country is taking even though they are not living in it currently.