Originally Posted by
Montmorency
No. Most people do not want to leave for anywhere. They come to avoid starving or being killed. If you want them to go away you need to make sure where they're going will not see them starved or killed.
Try to imagine, Fragony, that someone whom you don't like may still be a "real refugee". Your sympathy for someone is not the basis on which the status of refugee is conferred. For example, let's say there's a pro-Nazi German in Poland who's done awful things. Real war criminal, right? But here come the Soviets driving out all the ethnic Germans! Government in the area has collapsed and now he's a private citizen on the run. Boom, refugee. You don't have to like the man, or respect him, or wish him well, but he's a refugee nevertheless. It's possible to believe a whole class of people are inferior, or evil, or unworthy in some sense, and it would still not make them a refugee or not a refugee on that account alone.
Also, if you feel comfortable identifying people who 'deserve' help on the basis of your personal interactions with them, then how can you justify writing off literally all the people whom you've never met and know nothing about? Maybe if you met some more of them, you would get to hear about their knives in the bed.
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