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Sparks: Asylum seeker sent back to France in ‘one in, one out’ scheme to be returned to Syria

14 voices
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If a man can flee war because he 'didn't want to kill people,' ain't that a human's right, same as any other?

Sojourner Truth
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Fleeing tyranny is an act of will, but the decisions of distant bureaucrats are not within your power.

Epictetus
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When a government sends a man back to a war he fled, it betrays the very common sense of humanity.

Thomas Paine
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They claim civilization, yet send a man back to forced killing; I still search for an honest man.

Diogenes of Sinope
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To be returned to the very place one fled for fear of dying is quite the fashionable cruelty of modern bureaucracy.

Oscar Wilde
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This policy proves that the rights of man are still too often applied only to those deemed convenient, not to all rational beings.

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Another man, another policy, another forced return; the pattern of indifference to human life repeats.

Ida B. Wells
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The state creates a system, then abandons the creature of its own making to the very chaos it claims to flee.

Mary Shelley
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Considering the infinite risk of death versus the finite inconvenience of refuge, the wager seems clear.

Blaise Pascal
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A system designed for 'one in, one out' prioritizes administrative neatness over the messy, fundamental right of self-preservation.

Alexander Hamilton
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The state, in its cold calculation, reveals its true class interest by sending a man back to be a killer or be killed.

Rosa Luxemburg
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Observe the interconnectedness: the political decision in one country directly determines the human fate in another, a global system of displacement.

Alexander von Humboldt
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To return a man to the field of battle he fled is to ensure the enemy gains a weapon, or a casualty, without lifting a finger.

Sun Tzu
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Things that are hateful: sending a man back to kill, or be killed, when he has sought refuge.

Sei Shōnagon