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Seventy-two percent are men, only 13% women and 15% children. Not all are fleeing war. Some are fleeing poverty.….. in the abstract. Normal people feel the implications of their decisions in the particular. The decision-makers feel disdain for the anxieties of normal people, and ascribe them to small-minded bigotries, often religious and racial, and ignorant antagonisms. But normal people prize order because they can’t buy their way out of disorder. http://www.wsj.com/articles/...