6.6 million expected to try and cross the Med this year

[Monty92]

Well, yes. It's less upsetting, certainly. It would be better, of course, but nobody really cares about what's best. They prefer what they can feel good about.

It's more what we can't feel bad about, though, isn't it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

[Burney]

It's more what we can't feel bad about, though, isn't it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

Naturally. It is easier on the conscience not to act rather than to calculate and act decisively for the better when both have negative consequences. One is an act of killing, the other a sin of omission (or abdication of moral responsibility).