Aylan Kurdi : potentially harmful or potentially helpful ?
One can view this week's refugee crisis (just as one can view WWII and WWII Penicillin) as a conflict over varying ways to best control our fears of the future.
Because all humanity, all the time (sometimes consciously but often also unconsciously) worries about the unknown future.
It remains the sole most distinctive thing that we humans do that other lifeforms don't seem to do.