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Troy McClure 2:42 Thu Sep 3
That picture of the drowned young boy on the beach

Wow that's heartbreaking. Hard to even look at.

R.I.P to you, your Mum and Brother.


Since I've had kids - Things like this really strike home. Maybe I'm subconsciously putting my kids in that position.

gank 2:43 Thu Sep 3
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I don't worry about this kind of thing. Put it down to natural selection.

ted fenton 2:45 Thu Sep 3
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Troy McClure 2:42 Thu Sep 3

Trevor B 2:46 Thu Sep 3
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Uncle gank sorts your immigration problems.

mentor 2:47 Thu Sep 3
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All of these idiots should have read Homer's The Odyssey. Odysseus lost all of his crew and was lost for 10 years sailing the same waters.

cholo 2:48 Thu Sep 3
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Mentor

Yeh, that three year old only had himself to blame.

Nurse Ratched 2:48 Thu Sep 3
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I expect childless people are able to feel just as much sympathy and compassion. Having your own children doesn't make you into a saint overnight.

cholo 2:49 Thu Sep 3
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Nurse


To be fair it did me but it might've been a coincidence.

Nurse Ratched 2:50 Thu Sep 3
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Really? WTF was wrong with you before you had kids, then?

gank 2:52 Thu Sep 3
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If I got upset over this sort of stuff I'd be a fucking blubbering wreck.

So, for those of you who do get upset, how do you rank your tragedies? How do you determine how upset you're supposed to be? You must distinguish between events otherwise you wouldn't be able to function.

At what age is it ok for someone to drown and we don't need threads about it?

Far Cough 2:54 Thu Sep 3
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Is this photo on a par with the naked young girl running down the road after a Napalm attack in the Vietnam war?

cholo 2:55 Thu Sep 3
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Nurse

I like to ask Christians who think you can't have morals without god a similar question, if you stopped believing would you suddenly go around raping and killing people?

Pervy McBeer 2:56 Thu Sep 3
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Age is a small part of it. What makes it such a tragedy is the fact his family were 'fleeing' a warn torn country.

Were this to happen to a little boy from Southend drowning on the beach it'd be a story but not as big as this.

Expect this to be used as the poster for pro immigration and the politicians will be held over an emotional barrel to let them all in.

Dapablo 2:58 Thu Sep 3
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"I expect childless people are able to feel just as much sympathy and compassion. Having your own children doesn't make you into a saint overnight"

You need to be able to empathise, if you can't replace in your minds eye one of these children with your own then you can't. Parents never become saints they just have a deeper understanding of how one would react in stressful situations about ones offspring, cold rational or using another love doesn't do the job.

Parents aren't better, they just understand more.

andyd12345 2:59 Thu Sep 3
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I think having kids does make a difference actually. A couple of years ago I would have found that picture sad, but now after having a 2 year old of my own I find it truly heartbreaking, mainly because it nigh on impossible to look at it without imagining how you would feel if that was your child.

Nurse Ratched 2:59 Thu Sep 3
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Since Diana we are expected to feel strangers' tragedies as if they are personal to us. It's not enough to privately think "such a horrible shame that has happened" and go on our way. We have to be witnessed by others in the act of sympathising, or our sympathy never happened (and woe betide us if it didn't) Also, we must compete with each other's hyperbole on the issue. It's a public process now.

motley crue 2:59 Thu Sep 3
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Sorting out the problems in their own countries is the answer, not letting even more people in.

mentor 3:00 Thu Sep 3
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cholo 2:48 Thu Sep 3
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I've already alluded to the fact that he was murdered by his irresponsible parents.

DaillyShaggedMyWife 3:00 Thu Sep 3
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It's as if many people had forgotten this 'swarm' of migrants were actually human beings...

Gavros 3:01 Thu Sep 3
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"Sorting out the problems in their own countries is the answer, not letting even more people in"

Absolutely correct, and the limp wristedness of the government to deal seriously with Syria and Libya is exactly why these sort of tragedies happen.

As for the Calais mob, the argument that they are fleeing persecution is a fucking joke. Theyre IN FRANCE for fucks sake.

DaillyShaggedMyWife 3:03 Thu Sep 3
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Maybe starting wars in countries such as Afghanistan and de-stablising the middle east region in general is a starting point as to why these people are fleeing.

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