Yup, perfect analogy.

But, I'll go further...
You bought a barrel of apples, of which 3 are bad.

What should you do?

the problem is, it's actually a BAD analogy.

the skittles aren't DYING if you don't take them, refugees ARE


so it's more like you can save 97 skittles from potentially dying but 3 might potentially hurt you  

potentially because the future is a tricky thing

LostArtist wrote on 09/21/16 at 17:00:48:

" ... the skittles aren't DYING if you don't take them, refugees ARE ..."

That is   EXACTLY, what the Liberal Media, are, TELLING YOU.

Take your mind OFF, the Problem and Focus on, 'Skittles'.
(DO, Exactly what You are TOLD TO DO)

Apples, easy to see if they are good or not,
(It's called, PROFILING,)  So you take out the, 'bad' ones.

Can't, 'Profile', Skittles!
'Skittles', they ALL look the same.

Everyone has a chance of steeping off a curb, and Hit by a Bus.

But maybe, you, want to cross the street, with your eyes CLOSED, 'Hoping', their is no Bus coming.

I Sure Don't.

One, Skittle is red, (a mother)
Two skittles are blue, (child under 12)
One skittle is brown, (Older male, 50+)
and 96 of them are, 'Orange',  (Male, 20-30 )

Probably, the poisoned ones, are the color Orange.
(Don't know for sure, but fairly certain)
So prove me wrong. Go Door to Door, in your community, get people to agree to bring in 100, 'skittles', in Your Back Yard. Then Prove me wrong.

The Amish, (a select religion, with Very Close ties). Call Everyone Else, that is NOT  Amish, 'English'.
If a, 'English' does harm to a Amish, they will NEVER,  NEVER, report it, to the 'English'.
If a, Amish, does harm to another Amish, THEY  Deal with it, Themselves, in ways, (depending on the crime), the English simply do Not understand.  
No, None, Nada, has their Ever been a Amish, doing harm to a  English.
If you are Born Amish,  (Amish ONLY, Baptize, at 18 years old), and decide to NOT, be  Amish. You just leave.  If you are Amish and a homosexual, you just leave. If you are a, 'English' and do not nor become, Amish. So be it, they don't care.
The Amish's central belief is, 'Forgive'.

Quite Different, than the, 'skittles'.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/21/16 at 17:07:32:



so your idea is just let someone else deal with them. what? we're too good for them?  

now I agree that our ALLY, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc... should do something more for them, but I think the refugees might be in just as much danger there as they are in Syria

I just wonder how fast someone's ship has to be sinking before they stop worrying about others and start fixinh holes.
Instead, they seem to need to focus on other things.

Fact: the world is collectively getting smaller.

With technology, via communications, instant recall, data collecting, sharing, etc, we will be under a scrutiny like we have never experienced, before, ever, and its expanding.
I expect to see myself, out in my back nine, thinking I am alone in one of my strange quirks, I like marking my territory, only to see myself on a real time satellite feed on my Iphone in one hand, mu coc..... uh, you get it, yes  
Presently I can see my house, boats, cars, etc, pretty dang good now.
Spooky, as this is what they are letting me see  

Use to be a day a skipper had to know his shorts, to catch fish, out in the open ocean, no land or any other points of references...
He could find a high spot using dead reckoning and catch lots of fish, but not always.
The fish had a chance to grow back then, as you had to put in time to learn this stuff.
With the advances in GPS, sonar, etc, tying it all together, a half blasted weekend warrior could punch in the coordinates and find a bump 100 miles out, and him and his cohorts could wipe out a reef of its inhabitants to the point it could not recover its viability of a renewable managed resource.... some reef fish can take 20 years to grow to maturity...

Anyway, back to my point.

If not by geography, we will be connected under a bigger picture of world citizenry.
You don't have to take my word for it, just follow the chain of events in how technology advances will dictate, er, almost like dictator, eh????
How we live, maybe even where we live.
Under the sea, on the moon, in Arizona.....

There was a great resistance to the motor car, if you remember.
Folks thought ill of it, until they realized the convenience and possibilities it lent their lives.
They change their minds, and life's changed too.
The TV, goodness, it is still in its waning years, but still holds sway over the older generation.

Break out your buggy whips boys, or.......
Accept change, for that is the only thing that is constant.
     

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/21/16 at 19:06:01:



that's the thing we disagree on. I don't think our ship is sinking, but you, my pessimistic, fearful, overthinking, know it all, acquaintance of the interwebs,  you can't see the blue sky, the vast potential and the still growing greatness of America.

that's where YOU and the republicans and the conservatives LOSE.

You have to convince me to be afraid, to think negatively, to be down, nah, I've done that game, that doesn't help anything. I'm not about to go back to thinking down and out about this nation. sure, we have problems, but we CAN fix them, without the fear.  YOU WON'T MAKE me afraid and you have NO POWER to make me.