What is the moral significance of national boundaries?

国界的道德意义是什么
Why is it, or is it the case

为什么
that we as Americans have a greater responsibility

我们美国人对生活在德克萨斯州
for the health and the education and the welfare and public provision

富兰克林的人们的健康教育福利
for people who live in Franklin, Texas,

和公共保障担负着更大的责任
than equally needy people just across the river,

即使在河对岸墨西哥富兰克林镇
living in Franklin, Mexico?

生活的人们面临同样的困境
According to the communitarian account, membership does matter.

社群主义者认为成员身份提供里理由
And the reason patriotism is at least potentially a virtue

爱国主义至少有可能是一种美德
is that it is an expression of

正是因为这是
the obligations of citizenship.

公民义务的一种表现
How many are sympathetic to the idea

多少人赞同