But your analogy was your private home–not a public place. Which is more akin to what most of our ancestors experienced.
I think a far better analogy is that a nation is more like a living organism such as a human being or complex biological animal. The “cells,” tissues and organs of that body have integrity when they all work together for the good of the body. The components of the body must intend the same ends - the well-being of the organism in order for the body to remain healthy.
Notice that “discrimination” occurs when a biological animal brings into its body foreign substances – nutrients and such – that are used to build its body mass or assist in the processes of the body. SOME foreign bodies are determinably good for the body, while many are not.
Notice, too, that the body has a number of defensive systems that fight off dangerous foreign agents by promoting a constant vigilance in terms of not permitting dangerous foreign agents to breach the integrity of the body at all because – AND THIS IS IMPORTANT IN THE ANALOGY – even a small cut or bit of tainted food can bring in a tiny contingent of deadly bacteria or viruses that, once in, can wreck havoc on the cells and organs in the body.
There are antibodies and white blood cells that act as internal warriors to fight off viruses and bacteria and organs that clean out and expel these from the body.
But here is the rub…
For the immune system of any healthy body to function well, it must continually DISCRIMINATE between what is “good” for the body and what is determinably “bad.” That means, however, that what is good or bad MUST BE correctly identified as such when it is outside the body or inside, but that capacity to DISCRIMINATE must be present and effective or the body’s defenses will be breached.
Any living organism that has convinced itself that this kind of DISCRIMINATION is inherently bad is an organism exhibiting some kind of immune deficiency issue and will very likely succumb to even a small infection or infestation of some deadly foreign agent or other because it has lost the capacity to recognize what is good for it and what is bad.
When we have politician “cells” and networks whose main work is to convince every cell and organism in the body that to discriminate between good and bad is, itself, a “bad” thing, that would seem to be a sign that some kind of immuno-deficiency has become manifest.
And when politician and judicial “cells” – those cells whose main job is to protect and defend the body against foreign invader cells – go out of their way to silence and destroy the vigilant cells who are trying to warn the body of the potential danger of permitting noxious foreign agents into the body – and the entire body goes along like a well-heeled puppy – then it would seem the body, itself, has a full blown case of AIDS, would it not?
The telltale sign would be the insistence in the media and among the social and cultural elite that every kind of DISCRIMINATION is inherently wrong – and that it is ONLY some kind of PHOBIA that makes anyone even try to discriminate in the first place – thus leaving the body completely vulnerable since it cannot possibly distinguish what is good for it from what is bad. If every act of the body, every foreign agent entering the body, and every cell in the body (even the cancerous ones) are deemed “inherently good” by the immune system of the body and there are no distinctions to be made whatsoever because… well… THAT would be DISCRIMINATION then it would seem that the immune system of the body has been irreparably breached and disabled because the body has rendered itself completely defenseless.
