Syrian Refugees. Bonafide or a plot?
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You think people left their homes in the middle of a war, left their possessions and their lives, left bodies and buildings behind, to travel towards Europe so that they could guilt trip Americans and Europeans? Doesn't that strike you as a bit paranoid, perhaps even a bit arrogant?
They're going to Europe now, because Europe is a place where they will, by and large, be accommodated. They're going to Europe because Europe, for the most part, has made it clear they'll be welcomed.
4 million of them have already been accommodated in Turkey, Jordan, the Lebanon, and Iraq. Turkey currently supports 2.2 million Syrian refugees. This wave that just entered Europe is somewhere around 200,000.
They're going to Europe now, because Europe is a place where they will, by and large, be accommodated. They're going to Europe because Europe, for the most part, has made it clear they'll be welcomed.
4 million of them have already been accommodated in Turkey, Jordan, the Lebanon, and Iraq. Turkey currently supports 2.2 million Syrian refugees. This wave that just entered Europe is somewhere around 200,000.
What's reasonable or rational about any of this? ISIS have murdered all over Syria, bombs drop every day. There is machine gun fire in the streets. Peoples' lives and heritages are being destroyed. There's nothing reasonable in it. These are refugees acting on base emotional instincts; protect my family, find food and shelter, don't die.
I'd expect at least a modicum of common sense from anyone who gets to watch it all from an armchair in the safe comfort of their own home, though.
I'd expect at least a modicum of common sense from anyone who gets to watch it all from an armchair in the safe comfort of their own home, though.
Are you really so obtuse? Are you telling me we should approach this entire fiasco with utter indifference to the very real, very strong, human urge to survive? I'd like to think that if it were you on the brink of annihilation, that some person, somewhere, would show you much more compassion than you currently seem to be showing.
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True...true. guilt tripping is a form of emotional abuse...essentially it's manipulation and a devious way of getting what you want out of someone thru...yep...you guessed it...guilt. Lol. It's just a fact of the world that if refugees aren't contained and curtailed from flooding your country.... they are as bad as an invading army with guns and tanks.
There's a difference between guilt tripping somebody for my own personal advantage, and trying to get somebody to have a little empathy for other people.
What have I got to gain from illustrating to Deschidado that people who flee their families and their homes, who leave their lives behind, who have witnessed unspeakable violence, are going to be scared for their families and worried for their lives? Aside from the fact that it should be common sense -- I shouldn't have to convince anybody of that considering how obvious and normal a response it is to violence and war -- I benefit, personally, in no way whatsoever from Deschidado having some compassion, nor from hundreds of thousands of immigrants flooding Europe. The only people who might again anything from that, are the refugees. But that's such an unspeakable thing to you two that you won't even muster up basic reason, much less compassion.
What is wrong with you??
You don't even live in Europe, either. As for America, shame on you. It was a country founded by immigrants.
What have I got to gain from illustrating to Deschidado that people who flee their families and their homes, who leave their lives behind, who have witnessed unspeakable violence, are going to be scared for their families and worried for their lives? Aside from the fact that it should be common sense -- I shouldn't have to convince anybody of that considering how obvious and normal a response it is to violence and war -- I benefit, personally, in no way whatsoever from Deschidado having some compassion, nor from hundreds of thousands of immigrants flooding Europe. The only people who might again anything from that, are the refugees. But that's such an unspeakable thing to you two that you won't even muster up basic reason, much less compassion.
What is wrong with you??
You don't even live in Europe, either. As for America, shame on you. It was a country founded by immigrants.
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It's a sad situation and when I saw the guy throw his wife and child down on the track it honestly broke my heart. To say that I do not have compassion for people is just not true.....to imply that there is something wrong with me however...is true. Lol. I am sinner in a fallen world and all the chaos and death around us is all of our faults...even people who are desperate for survival. I wonder if Jesus is gonna allow passage to all the desperate immigrants who don't know him into heaven....the bible tells us....not a chance in hell.
