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Hmm.

Western countries will not take these kinds of immigrants at all.

Qatar will take these immigrants, offer them significantly better pay and quality of life than what they had at home.

Qatar is bad?

Perhaps the heavy restrictions Western countries place on immigration are even worse?



> Western countries will not take these kinds of immigrants at all.

That's outright not true, they will not take ALL of the immigrants. Thats how you create strawman justifying un-institutionalized slavery.

Secondly, letting all immigrants come and treating them like objects/slaves is immoral.

Also it would negatively impact the local economy, cheapening production overhead for businesses that will exploit slaves driving bottom-line for everyone else.


> That's outright not true, they will not take ALL of the immigrants.

No, it’s just impossible to get a regular EU or US work visa as an unskilled laborer from some Indian village.

There are some seasonal worker visas available which are perhaps even more “abusive” than those offered by the gulf countries, but nothing long term.

> Secondly, letting all immigrants come and treating them like objects/slaves is immoral

Oof. You say this like it’s obvious. I say it’s not obvious at all, especially when “treating them like objects/slaves” is code for “vastly improving their lives, but not by enough”.

Do you think it’s moral to leave these people to fend for themselves in the vastly worse conditions they exist in?

The world isn’t black and white. As I see it, the gulf countries are doing vastly more to improve these peoples lives than Western countries. Can you refute that? I’m genuinely interested in being proven wrong.

> Also it would negatively impact the local economy, cheapening production overhead for businesses that will exploit slaves driving bottom-line for everyone else

This is a positive effect, consumers will have access to cheaper goods.


> Do you think it’s moral to leave these people to fend for themselves in the vastly worse conditions they exist in?

This is moral relativism and as you clearly presenting it leads to slippery slope arguments.

Like justifying slavery and exploitation.

South was doing the same claiming that their slaves have better and they educate the savages through work and lords word.

> As I see it, the gulf countries are doing vastly more to improve these peoples lives than Western countries.

HAHAHA, ok this is a troll.

Tell that to Yemen, Saudis are helping them. They are just not realizing it.


> South was doing the same claiming that their slaves have better and they educate the savages through work and lords word.

But the South took away their freedom, it’s really incomparable with what is going on in UAE and Qatar. Those migrant workers can leave if they want, they aren’t slaves.

>HAHAHA, ok this is a troll.

>Tell that to Yemen, Saudis are helping them. They are just not realizing it.

I think you’re the one trolling here. What does Yemen have to do with this conversation? I believe that the visa and labour policies of some gulf countries are good, I do not believe that these countries aren’t run by downright evil regimes.


Peaceful Arab states helping improve lives of other nations.

Saudis are exterminating Yemen since 2015, sabotage Qatar, fund isis and Al-Qaeda.

Fund Bashar al-Assad atrocities against his own people.

I am not sure if you are ignorant or blindly nationalistic to claim they are somehow working for good of the world, its pointeless to continue this


> I am not sure if you are ignorant or blindly nationalistic to claim they are somehow working for good of the world, its pointeless to continue this

I never made such a claim. If you think I did, you must suffer from some severe mental illness.

I think these countries are totalitarian hellholes engaged in a lot of evil. However I don’t think their treatment of migrant workers is an example of that.

I only claim that gulf countries are doing more good for the South Asians they offer easy visas to than Western countries who would never grant them visas.




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