Captain Haddock wrote:Usual feely touched rubbish. (Personally I blame Lady Di).
38.2 MILLION displaced persons on the planet ALL of whom have a 'right' to apply for asylum in UK!
Who do you want to take? How many? Just the fittest and youngest who can pay the Albanians? Just the poor 'kiddies' (aaaah, they've got lovely big eyes)? Just those who happen to be pregnant?
I. Would. Not. Take. A. Single one.
End of. Life is nasty brutish and short. Always has been. Get used to it and just try to enjoy yourself as by chance you ended up where it's not so bad and stop trying to make it crap because you have some stupid existentialist guilt.
We come at this from opposite ends, but I think we arrive at the same conclusion. The only difference between you, Captain, and the people arriving on inflatables is when and were you were born, right? You didn't have a say in that anymore than they did with their circumstances. I get it that you don't feel any obligation to help, but I struggle to see why people begrudge those less fortunate trying to do all they can to better their lot.