Christian prime ministers don't lock up children as 'deterrents'
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The 17 Vietnamese who came ashore near Port Douglas are lucky to be alive. Even with a good motor and successfully dodging the reefs, once ashore, they need to contend with crocodiles and mangroves. Several people have been killed by crocodiles in the past few years within 50 kilometres of where they landed.
The fact they were Vietnamese suggests they had not see the advertisements about the turn-back policy.
On the moral side, the turn-back policy has probably saved a lot of lives. But there is no practical or moral inconsistency between a strong turn-back policy and ending the plight of the refugees on Manus and Nauru. Now that Morrison is Prime Minister and chief jailer, he stands open to accusations of hypocrisy if he allows the situation to continue.
This is what he says about his faith: “From my faith, I derive the values of loving-kindness, justice and righteousness, to act with compassion and kindness, acknowledging our common humanity and to consider the welfare of others; to fight for a fair go for everyone to fulfil their human potential and to remove whatever unjust obstacles stand in their way, including diminishing their personal responsibility for their own wellbeing; and to do what is right, to respect the rule of law, the sanctity of human life and the moral integrity of marriage and the family. We must recognise an unchanging and absolute standard of what is good and what is evil.”
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