I understand the dire need for humanitarian response to the Syrian refugee crisis, and the growing need of more involvement from first world countries such as the United States. However, what may need to be drawn to attention would be the chain response this refugee crisis may cause across the developing world, particularly western and central Africa. If the Syrian terror-themed violence and political instability constitutes a justified refugee status allowing their acceptance across the West as a first world community, then what would stop civilians of South Sudan, Congo, Central African Republic, Sierra Leonne and Nigeria from following suite and seeking refuge from a similar environment of terror and civil war? Boku Haram runs rampant across the northern territories of Nigeria, slaughtering civilians like animals, but a refugee situation would never be allowed to commence due to the disregard the rest of the world has for these countries. Most of northern, central and western Africa has been at civil war for decades, totalitarian regimes and autocratic governments pillaging economies for personal luxurious lifestyles and nothing is even raised to bring attention to it. However, when a similar event occurs in the controversially geopolitical and oil-rich Middle-East, the world feels a need to do something about it. I feel there are many avenues of addressing this issue morally and ethically. But all poeple are equal, and none more equal than others. If the gates open for the Syrian refugees, then the rest of the world’s war-striken countries should be allowed the same asylum from their horrors.