Page 121 - A Helping Hand for Refugees

The picture shows that
refugees, who were
about to drown, are
glad to see the rescue
teams on the coasts of
Italy.

There is no difference between abandoning someone
to drown and willfully stabbing a person. If someone who
takes a life is a murderer, then so is a person who aban-

dons another to die. The price of heeding our conscience
may sometimes be very high. One may end up being
injured in attempting to rescue someone else, or lose out
financially or end up facing huge legal difficulties. Yet
heeding the conscience means being prepared to risk all
that. The peace and joy that comes from doing the right
thing cannot be compared to anything else.

Countries have fallen in the grip of a style of politics
infused with anger and considerations of realpolitik. Some
politicians may have been misled into losing their moral
sensibilities. It is easy to devise laws based on calculations

of self-interest in air-conditioned rooms with no knowl-
edge of the difficulties being faced by others. It becomes
difficult to grasp as to why people flee their countries

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