re: #32 SanFranciscoZionist

Probably, but you still can’t just round up a bunch of kids and run for the border, on the theory that they’ll be better off with you.

Another troubling aspect of this is that, apparently, only children are worth saving. The mindset here is more troubling than Guanxi88 will allow.

What this particular group of missionaries have essentially done is already made the situational-ethics tainted decision that the lives (both in both the biological sense and the social sense) of the parents of these children aren’t worth living.

In other words, why didn’t these missionaries “take” the adults, too? Have they already made the decision that the parents are not able to be saved? Why not “adopt” the entire family, and make sure the entire family has enough to eat, a place to sleep, and some sort of constructive social engagement (i.e., work)?