Do We Have the Necessary Evidence Against Open Borders？ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_965)
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Ghat Saad uses the Stopping threshold model of decision making to argue that open borders are a disaster, and Islamic immigration is a wonderful addition to the West. What would be the evidence you would need to see in order for you to agree?
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Hi everybody, this is Ghat Saad. Some of you who follow my work might remember when I explained
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my doctoral dissertation from way back in 1994. For those of you who may not remember,
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my doctoral dissertation was in the area of psychology of decision making. Specifically,
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it looked at how much information do you need to acquire between two competing alternatives
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for you to stop acquiring additional information and commit to a choice. And so this is known as a
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sequential binary choice model. And what you basically do, you have these stopping thresholds
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where you accumulate evidence either in support of alternative A or alternative B until you reach
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one of the two stopping thresholds. If you reach the stopping threshold of alternative A, you stop
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acquiring additional information, you choose alternative A or the same thing for alternative
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B. And I will put a link to an episode I had done where I had explained that work. And the power of
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that doctoral dissertation, if I can speak of my own work, is that it really explains the cognitive
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processes that exactly defines how people make decisions irrespective of the decisions that they
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are making, whether it be choosing between prospective spouses to marry or apartments to rent or political
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candidates to vote for. And I took this principle and I applied it in other contexts, in an epistemological
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context, which I won't get into here. But what I wanted to do today is use that stopping threshold model
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to explore how much evidence would you need to acquire before you stop and agree that the open border
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policies of the West are terribly detrimental, suicidally, empathetically so, or no, they're wonderful. And so you can
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acquire information, different sources of information until you either reach the threshold that tells
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you open borders are a bad idea or open borders are a great idea. Now, I would posit to you that we have
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certainly collected more than enough information in the order of orders of magnitude more than is needed
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to suggest that the experiment has failed so much so that it has resulted in the possible death spiral of
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many Western societies. But yet so many people continue to say, no, there is no such evidence or they can speak,
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they, you know, they could talk away or rationalize away that evidence. So I would say to you,
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you does, let's say, having hundreds of thousands of white British girls being raped in the most horrific ways
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by predominantly Pakistani Muslim men in Britain, does that suggest something? Does it move you
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towards one of the thresholds versus the other? The massive exponential increase in sexual assaults and
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rapes throughout Western Europe stemming overwhelmingly from one group? They may come from many different
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countries, but they share one thing in common. They're all co-religionist. Does that suggest that
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we have some evidence? The fact that there is massive number of no-go zones in many Western cities? The fact that
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civic society is slowly unraveling in countless ways, public prayers in position of certain food edicts that are
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religious based on the rest of us, unique accommodations for one group, and on and on and on. The fact that I took a
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two-year leave from my home university in Canada because it was becoming dangerous for me to be there. The fact
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that there are now cities in the United States that are starting to exhibit the same kinds of tendencies that
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you see everywhere else in Western Europe. The fact that there has been, you know, billions of dollars
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stolen from Somali immigrants in the United States. They weren't Vietnamese, they weren't from Jamaica, they
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weren't Nigerian, they weren't Orthodox Jews. They come from one particular mindset.
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Now, I was going to actually take the time to sit and, you know, list all of the evidence that would suggest that we
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crossed the stopping threshold of open borders being a disaster, a suicidal disaster. I could have done all
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that, but I don't need to because rather I'd like to flip the question to you. If you are watching this clip
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today and you're still someone who says, you know what, I think open borders are a fantastic idea. I think
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more Islamic immigration is a wonderful addition to the West. Fair enough. What would be the evidence that you
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would need to see in order for you to perhaps revisit your lovely, compassionate, and empathetic ethos.