US to hike H1B visas, merit will count for green cards

[pampango]

240. In the 'real world' your 'rights' do depend "basically on luck & good fortune - the luck and good

fortune that arise from one's place of birth, one's parents situation, the varying results of one's own efforts and the circumstances surrounding each instance at which the "right" is being tested." Though I do not like that circumstance, I agree with your point. (I admit I was a little confused as to whether your point was that people should have no rights or that 'in the real world' that is not the reality of what happens.)

That does raise the question of whether liberals should accept that life is unfair in this way (some people are destined to have more 'rights' than others) and just move on or should we do something about it. Being born an African-American in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era certainly meant that one did not have the 'rights' that a white person had. (In a sense this baby had 'bad luck' in terms of "place of birth" and "parents' situation".) In essence this baby's rights were not the same as the right's of a white baby born on the same day.

Thankfully, liberals did not accept this 'real world' difference in the 'rights' that babies of different races were born with and over the ensuing decades we have made progress in terms of equalizing the 'rights' that babies have irrespective of their 'place of birth' or their 'parents' situation'. Much work remains to be done, but the goal of equalizing 'rights' has not changed nor should it.