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I'm not sure those conclusions are necessarily required, when you factor in that we exist within a particular system of nations where the nation's role is to take care of its own citizens, primarily. In other words, we may take the view that there's no difference in value between my life and a Syrian refugee's, but still think that within the world as it exists, the most practical way to do things is to have everyone look after their own citizens first and then pitch in when a humanitarian crisis rears its head such that there's a big group of people who have no one else to assist them. But I do think we should aim for theoretically supportable policy goals, and at least where we can practically achieve them in the real world, do so. Often, it won't be practically possible. Here, though, it seems to be - there's the political will, internationally, to pull this off to at least some extent.

I mean, if one could re-make the world from scratch to align with the current state of human progress, it would probably look very different and not be as concerned with national boundaries, I suspect - but that's exactly what you say, utopian.

Frankly if I were interested in perfect logical consistency I would have to eschew consequentialism altogether; it's just the only pragmatic way to approach the world as it exists.