Armchair_Politician wrote on Feb 6
th, 2016 at 7:12pm:
stunspore wrote on Feb 6
th, 2016 at 7:07pm:
Like i said in the other forum topic thread... libs won't be happy with the higher moral stance exhibited by a lab.
I don't believe Andrews is taking the moral high ground. He isn't. His way will just encourage people smugglers to have another go at sending boatloads of country-shoppers this way. They don't care how many survive the trip. They've been paid already. No, the moral high ground belongs to this government in stopping the boats, which has stopped the drownings and stopped the trauma that was experienced by our RAN & Customs personnel who had to pull the dead bodies from the ocean.
Moral - based on quick google search - principles of right and wrong.
Many perspectives of right and wrong here. Is Andrews right to want to immediately protect these refugees/seekers? From those people's perspective - yes. From lib perspective no - because it undermines their policy.
Is it right that wants to prevent "more deaths"? Yes it is.
If you want to truly stop them landing onto our shores, you would have to make the borders a military zone and shoot all illegal boats. Eventually they would stop coming. Would that be moral if shooting a few boats down will stop zillions in the future? Sounds like a sound lib policy in the making.
Sort of like chinese tactic when hitting pedestrians. Small fine if killed them, but if they survive, then long and expensive medical bills... which is why you hear reports of cars deliberately reversing back their poor victims.
Perhaps armchair is thinking long term - the "short-term" suffering and pain of returning those people and continuous detentions vs. future boats.
What's interesting to me though, is that as libs are after a new slave caste (low paid, if paid at all), why not let these refugees in then. You know, since libs like Swag are "sick" of being "progressive tax" slaves.
Here's a great chance to kill off high paying low skilled workers and their unions by putting in people desperate to do anything. And these people might even vote for libs to thank them for letting them into the country. Pretty much win-win here.
Oh wait - I forgot - there are xenophobic elements in the lib party. Must appease them...or they will abandon ship. Plenty of famous ex-libs already - Slipper, Palmer....hmm fantastic role models?
A number of attackers involved in the Paris massacre had been masquerading as refugees. They managed to get into Paris because of Europe's lax border controls and even more lax politicians who decided to just open the flood gates without any checks or controls on who they let in. Since then, there's been carnage. Choosing who to let in or not let in to our country isn't xenophobia. It's the first responsibility of any government and just plain common sense.
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