It goes without saying that people in distress at sea must be rescued. Considerations about whether they are legal or illegal migrants are unacceptable – inhuman! Crews from, for example, Germany or Norway looking for inflatable boats in the Mediterranean are on a legitimate mission.
Mission to save people!
But once people in distress at sea have been brought aboard a rescue ship, they can of course be asked who they are, where they came from, where they want to go, and who made them expose themselves to the life-threatening Mediterranean in unusable boats. As a rule, it is the smugglers who make millions of deals with people from North Africa and other countries of the crisis continent.
Yes, the crossing, which could mean death by drowning unless a rescue ship shows up, costs thousands of euros. Passengers pay because, compared to home, they are attracted by the social paradise on the northern shore of the Mediterranean – the farther north, the more paradise, preferably in Germany, but also in France or the Scandinavian countries.
There is currently a fierce debate about the tug business, which cynically counts on rescuing those abandoned on the high seas. Italy doesn’t want any more rescue ships to land and declares: The boat is full.
Who is facing each other? Here are the heroes-rescuers of ships, captains and captains with their remote crews, there is involuntary, inhuman Italy, refusing migrants who are in mortal danger, at the saving coast.
Good versus evil.
But something is missing in this morally charged constellation – someone: the migrants themselves, they are hardly mentioned. They are just a human burden to be saved or discarded.
But what to discuss, including with these objects of humanitarian rescue operations and inhuman authorities? For example, the issue of personal responsibility of migrants when they board a rubber boat on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea, often even with their wives and children. Every normally gifted young person should be aware at first glance that this journey is associated with great risk, that is, irresponsible.
These young people are, of course, usually gifted. Most of them come from the middle class in their home country, so they can afford the cost of smuggling services. There are no politically persecuted people who would have to run somersault into exile. They are also not victims of hunger. The pictures show strong young people, i.e. emigrants, hoping for a better, socially secure future in Europe, which, in turn, is a completely legitimate reason for migration.
From the point of view of the humanitarian organizations that care for them, they are “refugees” and “refugees” – a heartbreaking definition repeated by the media, but which is in no way true.
No, here responsible young men degenerate into objects of zealots of humanism – to victims in need of caring care. The helpers’ resentment of people who need to be taken care of because they are underage exudes paternalistic condescension.
This view from a high point of view of humanitarian interests does not only affect the victims of maritime disasters. In general, this determines the euphoria with which migrants are received: help, help, help – just do not demand anything, just do not treat them critically as responsible people.
Victims land there, the poor come there, and therefore the good ones – evangelical sympathy is in the order of things. Under no circumstances is this ad at eye level.
The masterful compassion that defines the culture of accepting migrants from developing countries has its roots in the green left environment: there they need a replacement for the proletariat, which no longer exists, but which they nevertheless consider destined to be led from above.
We care about you!
Men and women come by land and sea and are welcomed like children.