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From the article: > He arrived in Belgium with this in mind: “I was expecting them to give me a house, a good job, so I could have a better life. This is what
by bsg75 11y ago
From the article:
> He arrived in Belgium with this in mind: “I was expecting them to give me a house, a good job, so I could have a better life. This is what I was dreaming about.”
It's hard to emphasize with someone expecting handouts, vs those who are fleeing true horrors.
- icebraining 11y agoVersus? Why do you think the two are incompatible? This is a guy who has lost three brothers, amidst a civil war that still has been killing more than a thousand of civilians per month. How much horror do you need to empathize?
- bsg75 11y agoBecause having not received what he wanted, this man wants to return to Iraq of his own accord.
- icebraining 11y agoThere were some fish, still alive, who were being cooked in a frying pan in boiling oil. One of the fish said, "Brothers, let us flee from this place, so that we will not perish." Then they all at the same time jumped out of the frying pan and fell into the burning coals. Stricken thus by even greater pain than before, they cursed the plan they had adopted, and said, "By how much more terrible a death are we now going to die." -- Laurentius Abstemius
- bsg75 11y agoFinland does not exactly fit either of Bevilaqua's examples there.
- icebraining 11y agoNot for you and me, but this man prefers to live in Iraq than in Finland. After all, you and I are not expected to have people dressed as the KKK throwing rocks at us: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/finland/11890584/Finnish-government-condemns-racist-attack-on-refugees-in-Lahti.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/finland/118...