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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
(Post 7852552)
Can we care for and shelter everyone in the world? No of course not. Should they be sent back if they don't have a legitimate case for asylum? Probably.
You can say all of that whilst also acknowledging that they are human beings, that the lives they have come from are - by our standards - unfathomably horrible. You can acknowledge that you are incredibly ****ing lucky to live in a nation that people are fighting to get into instead of fighting to get out of, and you can have the decency to admit that if you were in their shoes you would most likely be doing exactly the same thing.
The situation is tragic. Yes, we realistically have to turn them away. But we should be doing so whilst saying "We're so, so sorry, but we just can't" instead of "Ugh! Yuck! Back where you came from, scum!". Say it with genuine regret that we aren't able to help our fellow human beings. Not with spite and anger. Not by talking about people like vermin. It's sickening.
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
(Post 7852593)
You can feel compassion for both, sure, although I still question anyone who says it's equal.
That's not what I have a problem with. That's not what I've ever had a problem with. What I have a problem with is people who have MORE compassion for ONE DOG than for a truck full of human beings. Who rage and spew and bawl and dribble about the "poor dog" but have no compassion at all for "immigrants". No, more than that, they have hatred and contempt for them.
It's disgusting.
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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
(Post 7852882)
I didn't say they have but there are specifically people on this thread who were outraged about the dog who make their contempt for these people - these humans - very, very clear. I'm trying not to name names because that's "not allowed" or whatever?
My point is that people couldn't understand why the dog thread pissed me off so much at the time. I was just saying. THIS is why. People's ****ing toxic attitudes on this thread when they would claim to be empathic, caring people because they cry over dead dogs.
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..so really what you’re saying then is that what you find sickening is the terminology that people use when they have a definite opinion on something...the wording being used on a forum...how someone expresses something and because of that/how they do that determines the person they are, that’s what we judge people on in life...I mean we know nothing about people’s lives, about the people they are..whether they are caring people, whether they are compassionate people..whether they in their lives see any practical thing that they can actually do to make something/some small thing a bit better for someone else, whether it be someone they know or not... or even help care for a poorly animal, one that has been mistreated etc..if that were to particularly touch their heart...but whoever they are as people, they’re being judged by terminology on a forum and whether they choose to join in a discussion or not, so really judging them by how they choose to spend their time on a forum...and if they did spend that time saying, oh how sad, these immigrants will have to go back sadly and aren’t we so lucky etc, etc...then what difference would that particular terminology make to the lives of those people when they are then back in their country...does it make their lives better, will they take comfort or anything of any practical help from those words....whether you, I or anyone else feel any compassion or empathy, it really doesn’t change the outcome of what will probably happen to these people and in this case...and whatever words are used, that doesn’t change it either...neither do those words/that terminology have any measure of how someone should be judged...I could say, oh wow that’s awful, poor things...and then go out and kick a dog...or I could say, ugggghhhh, send them all back home at the first possible and never let them darken our shores again and then take a hot meal to a homeless person who really needed it ...(well, it’s a bit warm tonight for that..)...so which then would actually hold any compassion and which wouldn’t... ....I mean I really don’t understand exactly what you have a ‘problem’ with but it seems to be with words..and tbh that seems a bit silly on a forum in discussions because words are what it’s all about and people will use many different words and many different ways to express themselves and their opinion, that’s just the differences in people ..hmmm, much the same as swearing etc are just words and a form of expression, so are other ways but say nothing about that person...really their time spent off the forum and the use of that time is what determines that more... and possibly in doing things that don’t so much involve words because they’re action...
..and as for humans V animals...there again I think it’s missing the point that some find disillusionment in the ‘cruelty of humans’ as we are fed constantly by the media ..man hurting man etc...and a relating to the vulnerability of an animal, much the same as they would with a child...maybe it’s something also that sparks a particular passion with them to the point that they feel they want to express that passion..then that’s something to be encouraged, not something to be judged and told it’s misplaced...if we did not nurture passion when it’s positive passion and just dampened it down with judgement then the world and every living thing in it really would be a much worse place than it is now...
..and tbh...people can ‘cry over dead dogs’ as much as they feel they want to and they can express in whatever way they want to that they don’t feel themselves that the British economy can sustain immigration because that doesn’t mean that they don’t care and have no compassion... but just for them that it’s not the solution....and nothing in this thread or any other thread makes anyone ‘toxic’ or their attitudes toxic either...anyone can talk the talk of compassion but not everyone walks the walk of compassion and that’s where the real ‘judgement’ lies...but it’s not for you or anyone else to make that judgement of people just because they don’t like particular ways of saying things...or judge ‘where people’s tears fall and for what reasons they flow’ and where they don’t....
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