Is this crisis off the coasts of Thailand ,Malasia and Indonesia the start of the big breakdown of civilization?
If these countries are willing to tow these boats back out to sea and wait for the passengers to die, then surely this is the end for our world.
It will be our turn one day if we let this happen.
Migrants From Myanmar, Shunned by Malaysia, Are Spotted Adrift in Andaman Sea
They said that they had been on the boat for three months, and that the boat’s captain and crew had abandoned them six days ago. Ten passengers died during the voyage, and their bodies were thrown overboard, the passengers said
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/world/asia/burmese-rohingya-bangladeshi-migrants-andaman-sea.html?_r=0
Muslims Flee to Malaysia and Indonesia by the Hundreds
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/world/asia/more-than-1000-refugees-land-on-malaysian-resort-island.html?_r=0

Compassion can only be extended for a limited time before it turns to enough is enough.

Robert LePage, one simple question for you how many homeless people are you willing to let stay at your house all of there expenses to be paid by YOU?

The world wide number of refugees is in excess of 52 Million that stops compassion.

Robert the Rohingya could simply go back to Bangladesh where they belong but they choose to go to Malaysia because it has a higher standard of living.

quote from article that Robert posted

'Many of the migrants are believed to have been abandoned by their traffickers with little food or water.'

thankyou Scott Morrison for closing down this horrific business. I was told by a person directly involved in this business that they were so happy when Rudd came to power. It opened up their business after Howard had shut it down.

What fairy land do you live in Robert?

How do you think most of us have to spare after we have covered all our living costs? The last thing we can afford to do is support a bunch of freeloaders, who won't fit into our society, from countries who won't support their own.

It really is time you grew up. If you want to play fairy good mother to the world, go do so, but do it yourself, rather than wanting someone else to pay to ease what ever bee you have in your bonnet.

Please tell us just what you have done for these people, personally, & where the money came from, before giving out any more criticism of others.

'morning Robert,

Humans have always exhibited heroics and compassion, along with few nasty bits. The issue is not about compassion it's about politics.

Progressives will eventually have to wear the responsibility for the human tragedies unfolding. Firstly because it is progressives that have cried wolf once too often. PC has worn so thin that many cannot reconcile our national generosity since WWII, these are the immigration policies upon which some damn fine nations have been built.

Progressives have destroyed this generosity by demanding even more than donors are capable of absorbing, both by volume and by cultural differences.. They have created amongst potential immigrants, a mantra of victimhood and international entitlement. Sugar on the table.

Western societies are slowly beginning to realise the difference between the faux compassion of progressives and and genuine compassion as expressed by social tolerance.

There will be a time in the not too distant future, when those of your ilk are held to account. There will be no escape for you when this moment arrives and you will become the refugee seeking a place to to avoid persecution.

Where will you go when that moment arrives?