Syrian Refuge Crisis Analysis

The current Syrian refuge crises is a defining moral event in this era, we are currently writing history with our reactions to the millions of desperate family’s looking for safety. As a planet and a country we must decide what moral era we want to live in, when we look back at events like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda or the Bosnian war, millions could have been saved if we acted sooner and wile in the example of the Holocaust lives were saved after the intervention we could have done a lot more, and we look back at those times as immoral. This essay using the moral philosophy of Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, Aristotle and, Carol Gilligan will show how the reaction to the Syrian refuge crisis from the world Canada has been immoral. …show more content…
Le Guin. The western fears of accepting the Syrian refuges are based two principals; the first the economic fear that they will use up social programs and funding while not attributing anything to economy; the second, is Islamophobia the media and politicians have made a point of creating fear and panic around the middle east and anyone slightly related to that reign.
Looking at readings such as “The Magistrate and the Threatening Mob” and “The Case of the Innocent Fat Man” by Kai Nilsen, Utilitarianism is a clear supporter of the treatment of the Syrian refuges. In “The Magistrate and the Threatening Mob” one is blamed for murder even though they are innocent of all crimes, to stop the town from destroying them self’s (Kia Nilsen.) In the west we atomically blame all of Islam for any act that could be construed as terrorism, and we are continually to grow this, blaming everything on Islam. According to “The Mob” we are all the angry villagers and the media/ politicians are the king and instead of find the real cooperates they just blame Islam and or refuges for the crime, to stop panic from the unknown. This similar circumstances are applied to “The Case of the Innocent Fat Man,” except in this case the people knew that they were killing an incent person (Kia Nilsen.) The Fat Man must be killed …show more content…
Le Guin is an argument against utilitarianism. If one is to walk away from Olmos in the story they are walking away from utopia and accepting some suffering as a result of this. In Canada today we are far from a utopia but compared to places like the refugee camps set up by the people fleeing a war torn country Canada could easily be seen as a utopia comparted to their current living conditions. By ignoring the crisis/ only accepting a small number of families we are needlessly infliction pain and suffering on to others to keep our own “safety” and comfort as a priority. So we as a country and world must decide if we are going to continue to inflict pain for our own comfort or if we will try and help combat it. Since Utilitarianism is measured by pain verse pleasure, the amount of pain being suffered by refuges is far great then the amount of “pleasure” that we are entertaining by not helping all that we