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This points to a basic moral test, sympathy as the minimum response to people forced to leave home and start over in a place that may not welcome them. The line can be read as frustration with indifference dressed up as neutrality. It lands sharply in arguments about refugees, where the issue is less policy detail than simple human recognition.
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