(December 5, 2016 at 1:26 pm)alpha male Wrote:(December 5, 2016 at 12:27 pm)Shell B Wrote: How does one even follow the other? I consider all lives equal so I have to somehow get into a country that almost certainly wouldn't even allow me in to help them how? Am I a human shield? Helping would be offering them refuge. I'm willing to do that already. I'm not an idiot. I think we need to vet as much as possible, but I don't see how me going to fucking Syria helps anyone. I said I hope people come up with a solution, not that I could muster up the courage to do something absolutely useless.
I think you'd try a little harder than that if it was one of your loved ones in danger. That;s just basic human nature. Pretending that you're above that human nature is the issue.
I never once said I didn't find my family more important to me than everyone else. I said I don't find my fellow countrymen more important than people in other countries. Still, there would be fuck all for me to do about it if someone in my family was trapped in Syria. If my whole family was trapped there, damned right I'd be banging down your door hypothetically to get them out of that shit storm. I'm not pretending shit. If you think I'd go to Syria to save any stranger, you're out of your mind. I'd welcome them here, though.
