RE: My (probably unpopular) opinion on arab refugees
December 6, 2016 at 12:47 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2016 at 1:00 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(December 6, 2016 at 2:13 am)Macoleco Wrote: I dont consider myself to be a bad person, nor do I think I have a grim vision of the world. I just dont like thinking everything is peace and love.
Nuance much?
(December 6, 2016 at 3:20 am)Moros Synackaon Wrote: It perfectly captures the "I don't have any responsibility to others in dire need" aspect of the OP. It's nothing more complex than that. It may be predicated upon a belief of "if no one cares for me, then no one should care for another", but at the end of the day it manifest the same way.
Reading this thread has Donne echoing in my head:
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
