Ok, and making sweeping statements about ‘typical leftys’ is very constructive. And it eats me up inside that you don’t like my arguing style Dan.

Back on topic - I wasn’t being hyper-emotional, I was taking your arguments to thier logical conclusions. Secondary implications they may be, but implications they are nonetheless: you have failed to take into account a) that the sleep-out was to highlight the plight of those due to be deported but lack the means to do so, and are thence denied basic standards of living and b) that although being black/gay is not a crime, making stereotypes about them and then judging all in that category is. You’ve demonstrated this perfectly by one phrase: “by such an individual”. The entire “basic fabric of society” was not damaged by one particular individual here for refuge, even if it was (and you’ve presented very little evidence that it was) damaged by another immigrant sometime somewhere. I agree the system is broken, but criminalising people who want to come here to escape persecution and work hard is not the answer.