The right of hospitality entails a claim to temporary residency whichcannot be refused, if suchrefusalwould involve the destruction – Kant’s word here is Untergang – of the other.
To refuse sojourn to victims of religious wars, to victims of piracy or ship-wreckage, when such refusal would lead to their demise, is untenable,Kantwrites.What is unclear inKant’s discussion
is whether such relations among peoples and nations involve acts of supererogation, going beyond the call of moral duty, or whether they entail a certain sort of moral claim concerning
the recognition of “the rights of humanity inthe person of the other.”