One of the reasons North African smugglers put people on makeshift rafts is because they know that NGO vessels will rescue them. The African smugglers and NGOs are in cahoots - effectively making the NGOs smugglers as well.
Does that change the fact without the NGO craft, people aboard the raft are at greater risk of drowning? All of this just sounds like justification for allowing people to drown. I'm sure there are better ways to prevent people smugglers than blockading the part of the operation that prevents human deaths.
The NGO boats can rescue the migrants and take them back to Libya instead of to Italy. Why aren't they doing that?
As I mentioned in another post, where they take the people they rescue really has nothing to do with Patreon's content policy.