These are heady days - the passing of a Pope, an election here in Canada, the ongoing debate about equity, tariffs, trade and climate change, war, famine, and the fate of humanity. My work in these pages in OLDaily is motivated by a desire to see a world "where each person is able to rise to his or her fullest potential without social or financial encumbrance." This to me is a world freely shared, not hoarded or barricaded. For all the talk about globalization and the free movement of goods and capital, we seem not yet to have breached, ethically at least, that one final barrier where people - you and me - have the same right of movement across borders as bricks and bucks. Here I am aligned with the Popes. "Why are Popes far more progressive than philosophers on the issue of migration?" asks Speranta Dumitru. I don't know. I take it as prima facie evidence that ethics has not matured as a discipline, and as a recommendation that we follow only with caution what in today's wealthier and more protected societies what we intuitively declare as 'right'.
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