Should the virtuous impulse to save lives
be conditional on good character? Who is to
judge? When a society agrees to the necessity
of offering refuge wholesale to people under
threat of death during savage wars to embrace
these refugees do they absorb more than meets
the eye? Bringing with them heritage and traditions
religions and social cultures, tribal antipathies
that nurse historical grievances do they leave
these all behind to clasp the new values of those
offering haven and a life of untold opportunities?
When the absorbing society faces a situation
of hostile baggage of racism and grudges along
with ancestral hatreds that spread within their own
society down to immigrant offspring spurning
the controls exerted toward student discipline and
respect within the teaching arena opting instead to
defy convention so unlike their parents' experience
instead threatening, intimidating, abusing others
violating trust, arriving armed with weapons yet
viewed by woke authorities as underprivileged
behaviour excusable endangering everyone
what then is the advantage and the measure
of need and demand balancing that rescue?
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