Turning Away Syrian Refugees: Why Should I Help Others?

We always look for reasons to help others, and we always ask ourselves “why should I help others?”. We may have a selfish reason or two, but the important thing is to help them. War, persecution, and natural disaster are some of the reasons why people escape and seek for help. These people are called refugees; but some countries are unwilling to accept or help them thinking that they’re doing the right thing when in reality it’s injustice, for it violates a human right and they’re letting innocent people die.
First off, refusing to help refugees means letting people die. Refugees are innocent people that are seeking for help; letting them die just because they were born in the wrong place is such an absurd reason and unfair. According to the news from the telegraph by Nick Squires, “More than 2,500 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies and rusting fishing boats, the UN’s refugee agency said in a report.” This wouldn’t have happened if someone helped them, and some countries are fully capable of doing that. The only difference between
In the article, “Turning Away Syrian Refugees is Exactly What ISIS Wants” by Jesse Andreozzi, he concludes that “Refusing Syrian refugees sanctuary in America appears to be a lose-lose situation for both the American and Syrian people. It isn’t out of the realm of possibility to imagine a scenario where a refugee uses the devastation of being turned away to exact revenge against the US by joining ISIS.” So these are the choices, whether you want to put yourself at risk but in return you’re saving a lot of people, or increase the chances of the refugees joining the terrorists and to let them die. Not to mention, if the refugees did join the terrorists, the risk will also increase. Since the consequence of accepting and refusing the refugees are the same, it should be obvious that the best and right choice is to accept the