Five times as many asylum seekers, people, have died in the conditions the Home Office provides than crossing the worlds busiest shipping lane in a fucking dingy.

I'm making no claims that they have Hitlerian plans for genocide on an industrial scale as in the holocaust.

No, this ”only” breaks such laws in a "specific and limited way".

The idea is they make the reception so poor that no one wants to come, said to have been attempted by Australia and Greece to name a couple.

The first thing to say is that it is morally abhorrent, but it's also worth pointing out that it is the same absence of empathy for these people that means they attempt this when it's obvious why it never works.

This inevitable ineffectiveness is because no matter how bad the stories, that horrible reception is still a maybe but they know for damn sure that they can't stay where they are.

So they will always take the gamble, the failure to see not just the immorality of this, but the ineffectiveness, is a defect in empathy.