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Old 30-07-2015, 02:22 PM #34
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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.
I'm not saying either is the right or wrong choice. I'm just pointing out that it's not much of a choice to make with what we know due to bias in the media.
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