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Originally Posted by jfman
Events don't need to happen simultaneously to draw legitimate comparisons, nor within the same geography. Especially if the tragedies are supposedly human ones.
Nobody sincerely believes the loss of all human life is a tragedy, neither that it's a human duty to do so. It's the kind of trope people roll out in exactly this type of occasion to silence critics of how the discretion is actually applied in the real world by policy makers.
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He would say that wouldn’t he? …. Surely not invoking Mrs Thatcher are we?
Except, as I pointed out above, the primary failure of the argument here is that the two incidents lie in the purview of two entirely different sets of policymakers. Who’s to say what the Canadians or the Americans would have done had the migrant tragedy unfolded on their doorstep? Or the Greeks, if confronted by a stranded sub full of billionaires?