"Throw Them in the Sea" Does not Reflect Well of Today's Society

  I give you a reflection of society in this day and age in which we live: Refugees pour into a Greek island, their numbers being greater than what the island feels it can sustain, and the people rise up in protest against the immigrants, yelling, "Burn them alive," and "Throw them in the sea."
  That the people did not want the immigrants might be beside the point. The point is that it is never good to wish for someone to be burned alive or to be thrown back into the sea. Expressing such sentiments does not reflect well on you. It does not reflect well on you, as a society.
   I think about us, as a world. I do not know whether we are a colder, more unloving society than those of the past. I only know that whatever we think of societies of the past, such sentiments as this do not reflect well of the society of our day and age.