2.1 million people in a year on average have to make an emergency department visit for assault. There are 16,000 homicides per year on average. Cruelty follows people in life, regardless of where they are or who they are. In the book, Night, Elie Wiesel tells the horrors of concentration camps from his point of view as a survivor. In the novel, In Cold Blood, Truman Capote shines a new light on the 1959 murder of the Herbert Clutter family in the small community of Holcomb, Kansas. In both of these texts inhumanity is shown in different ways and is brought on by different motivations. These accounts show most people will be pushed to cruelty when it is either that or their life, anyone can be broken but some choose to go down that path. Cruelty
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This includes targeted killings, forced slavery, sexual abuse, and the taking control of entire communities. While the typical American fights for a seat on the bus to get to work, in Iraq children, teenagers, and adults are having to fight for the lives and rights because of extremist groups trying to kill them all. It is hard to comprehend how extremist groups work, but in their eyes, they are doing what is right, similar to how the Nazi’s worked. It is the same dynamics of brainwashing and believing they are above the common person and due to their perfectness they have a right to kill off and torture inferior beings. Although there is progress against the Islamic State it does not change the fact that, “Thousands of people have been killed, the majority of them civilians, and more than a million others have been forced to flee their homes,” (Iraq Crisis: Acts of Inhumanity on Unimaginable Scale – UN). Due to the study shown earlier, it is clear that killing is not a part of our original intent as humans. But, because of Islamic State’s yearn for control and domination over all infidels, the Islamic State are able to perform these inhumane acts happily and without remorse, because they do not see anything wrong with what they are doing. It is similar to World War II’s dynamics of the end goal for the extremist group is to wipe out an entire religion or anyone who opposes them, or just simply is not them. This type of inhumanity can happen anywhere at anytime and there is not much that can be done to stop it besides remembering it and trying to learn from it. Through the use of learning from it there are actions being taken to prevent any more pain or suffering to the people, “On Monday, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution that will allow a team to investigate whether war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in
This includes targeted killings, forced slavery, sexual abuse, and the taking control of entire communities. While the typical American fights for a seat on the bus to get to work, in Iraq children, teenagers, and adults are having to fight for the lives and rights because of extremist groups trying to kill them all. It is hard to comprehend how extremist groups work, but in their eyes, they are doing what is right, similar to how the Nazi’s worked. It is the same dynamics of brainwashing and believing they are above the common person and due to their perfectness they have a right to kill off and torture inferior beings. Although there is progress against the Islamic State it does not change the fact that, “Thousands of people have been killed, the majority of them civilians, and more than a million others have been forced to flee their homes,” (Iraq Crisis: Acts of Inhumanity on Unimaginable Scale – UN). Due to the study shown earlier, it is clear that killing is not a part of our original intent as humans. But, because of Islamic State’s yearn for control and domination over all infidels, the Islamic State are able to perform these inhumane acts happily and without remorse, because they do not see anything wrong with what they are doing. It is similar to World War II’s dynamics of the end goal for the extremist group is to wipe out an entire religion or anyone who opposes them, or just simply is not them. This type of inhumanity can happen anywhere at anytime and there is not much that can be done to stop it besides remembering it and trying to learn from it. Through the use of learning from it there are actions being taken to prevent any more pain or suffering to the people, “On Monday, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution that will allow a team to investigate whether war crimes and crimes against humanity are being committed in