Where one side is giving and the other taking, there is no love. Giving everything you have is not virtuous. It allows others to indulge themselves in selfishness, and the proper purpose of all moral activity is helping others to GROW, not shrink.
The term for this is codependence, where “the more you suffer, the most it shows you really care, right?”
The Left does not consciously want to destroy this country. They are simply willing to sacrifice anything and anyone for the FEELING of being virtuous, which being poorly integrated, emotionally hollow people, they cannot get through actually productive activity. They get it by taking the stuff of one set of people and giving it to another, which does not deserve it and has not earned it in any way.
It is impossible to calculate the economic costs of an open border, but it runs into the many trillions.
America should not be a Giving Tree. This is a model for suicide, and there is no virtue or benefit to anyone for good people to willfully throw themselves into the fire, or to allow the fire to spread around them.
I will add, that this core issue of boundaries, which start with psychological boundaries, rests upon a fundamentally moral foundation. You have to be able to form clear opinions from clear beliefs, in order to have coherent actions. If you believe nothing, you can never say no. And never saying no is what I am discussing. The Giving Tree never said no, and wound up as a stump with the ungrateful ass of its boy–and it is appropriate that this person was called boy throughout the story–upon it.
So I gather from reading the synopsis of this story I have not read in some time. We had it in the house, but I didn’t like it. That story always made me uncomfortable, because I couldn’t help but wonder what the hell was wrong with both the tree and the boy.