There are different forms of harm and risk, but they're not separate. They overlap. For example, there are kinds of persecution called cumulative persecution, which is made up of several different smaller kinds of harm that would all clearly come within H and C. They are separate streams. I'm not questioning that they be separate streams, but if you're assessing the hardship, which is what you're trying to assess under H and C, I'm questioning that you would exclude anything that could look or sound like persecution. You're trying to take one big ball and carve it into two categories, and that's not how it works. It's really mixed together very much. That's why.
On May 11th, 2010. See this statement in context.