[Livia]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Most people are obviously going to go with the lion, our media is nothing if not cruel to the plight of migrants and it doesn't surprise me to see that the person who died in Calais has yet to be named or even humanised in the media. It's hard to get upset about a tragedy when the victim is presented as nothing more than a statistic.

I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. It's hard to quantify outrage. Of course I feel a certain amount of sympathy for the migrant, although he did know what he was doing carried a risk and he went for it anyway. Had he stopped at the first safe country to give him refuge things might have worked out differently for him, he made a choice. But that doesn't mean I don't care that he died. The lion on the other hand was baited, terribly injured weith a crossbow bolt, tracked for forty hours and then killed with a gun... for fun.