H&C Humanitarian Ground with/or Without Failed refugee claim

[WellWell2021]

>because when life puts you through hardships, you are meant to become more compassionate toward others, not to take out your stress and anxiety on people who are also vulnerable...

My philosophical take - I'd say that life in general doesn't work like that. In general there are things that make someone more compassionate:
1. hardship can lead to a better character, but only if someone responds well to it. Most people don't and the retention of the character is questionable to a large degree for even those who temporarily acquire it.
2. Suffering won't lead to empathy simply because intentional practice to cultivate compassion is missing from most people. This thread is a big example of it. Most participants of this thread are extremely selfish, ignorant and clearly lack compassion. Ironic for a H&C thread.

What echoes throughout the forum from what I see is "I suffered, so why shouldn't you" or more similar narratives. There's barely any compassion. Enduring hardships is not the same as reflecting on hardships - the ones who do the later develop character, most don't!

Exactly ! ! We see people relentlessly attacking humanitarian considerations as if they were the cause of their misfortune or the reason behind Canada’s deteriorating situation (people who claim to be liberal, yet come from Canadian nationalist backgrounds... ) Even though it doesn’t concern them at all (AT ALL ! they have absolutely no connection with immigration and especially not to this humanitarian pathway for regularization).
In reality, the chaos surrounding humanitarian considerations is the result of what’s happening globally, in a world that has become so destabilized, chaotic, and fragmented !

 

[iSaidGoodDay]

Exactly ! ! We see people relentlessly attacking humanitarian considerations as if they were the cause of their misfortune or the reason behind Canada’s deteriorating situation (people who claim to be liberal, yet come from Canadian nationalist backgrounds... ) Even though it doesn’t concern them at all (AT ALL ! they have absolutely no connection with immigration and especially not to this humanitarian pathway for regularization).
In reality, the chaos surrounding humanitarian considerations is the result of what’s happening globally, in a world that has become so destabilized, chaotic, and fragmented !

There's this author, Rene Girard, he wrote "mimetic theory" - a lot of what you see around is that in action. Trust on authorities is lower across the world, connectivity has increased - so, net stabilizers are dying down and everything is extreme chaos. Rene predicted this long time back. Worth a read to gain sanity in this pretty much weird state of the world.

To most who are in any limbo, I'd suggest pick a hobby (running, cycling, do a DJ course for free, learn a new instrument, etc). Time flies at the end of the day, we don't control what's to come, but you do control what you can do with the time at hand. Every quarter, I learn 2-3 new things and honestly, it cuts off useless things from my life.

 

[iSaidGoodDay]

Didn't see anyone post this, so posting it here: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...n-system-and-borders-act-have-become-law.html

Bill c12 is a law now.

 

[idiris]

Didn't see anyone post this, so posting it here: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...n-system-and-borders-act-have-become-law.html

Bill c12 is a law now.

New immigration and asylum measures from Bill C-12 (the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act) have become law.