Does Europe deserve to be saved?

[mikl]

(Also posted to mailbag@fdr, but since that rarely gets discussed, I figure it was worth bringing up here)
 

Dear Stef,

On a recent show, in context of the migrant crisis, you expressed that you where “on the fence” about whether Europe “deserves to be saved”. First, you should know that most Europeans that still have a spine have a distinct dislike for generalisations that involve all of Europe, since that covers everything from the lazy and corrupt Greece to the hard-working and innovative Switzerland – and arguably, a good chunk of Turkey and Russia.

And while the U.S. government gives a decent helping of freedom to its own citizens, you could well argue that the people of Switzerland or Poland are in many ways more free. And said nations are not involved in whole-sale murder and suppression of freedom in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan.

So can you honestly say that the U.S. deserves to be saved, more than we do? Or that there's some other country out there that you think is more deserving? Or have you simply given up on the whole world?

I hope it's not just me, who think Europe is worth saving.

[Absit]

I think it's weird to talk about "Europe being worth saving". I mean, it seems like some think that Europe is not worth saving, because Europe is not saving itself - so if it were to save itself, then it would be worth saving. Did that make any sense?

 

 

But yeah, I'd like to stay in my home country (because it's beautiful and have weather that I like) and also have a family that won't get raped as soon as they leave the house.

[shirgall]

At a minimum, Hungary looks to be worth saving, from my view ten thousand miles away.

[RichardY]

Do children deserve to be saved from slavery? Does a moral person deserve to be saved from stoning or burning at the stake?  What is the possible? What value are they to me? What is the price I'm willing to pay?

 

When is enough bloodshed?......

[Donnadogsoth]

Children and nationalists deserve to be saved from the Islamic hordes.  Any other Europeans who are saved will be simply boats floating up with the common tide.