“Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection,”a quote by Richard von Weizsaecker.
To understand inhumanity one has to grasp the idea of humanity. The internet refers to humanity as “the quality of being humane”. So how would a humane person act? Well, they certainly would not attempt to abolish an entire group of innocent people by burning them to death or making them starve until they are nothing but skin and bones.
In today’s society, there is a major lack of humanity that may not always seem obvious, but it is still there. We see inhumanity is wars, slavery, bullying, persecution regarding religion, murder, and so on.
The inhumanity of man towards man is fueled by the goal of personal advantage and is …show more content…
And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread.” (Wiesel 101)
These prisoners were fighting to the death for a piece a bread. It might seem foolish to us, but for them, that one piece of bread could determine whether they lived to see another day or if they would die from starvation. It directly relates to the common phrase: Every man for himself. If you didn’t fight for your survival you were going to die, end of story.
This idea of doing inhumane things in order to survive can also be seen in the lives of African American youth living in ghettos. The news loves to display black youth engaging in criminal behaviour and how they are becoming so dangerous, but they never focus on why. Everything happens for a reason. African American youth in ghettos are resulting to crime in order to make money and provide for themselves. Their gangs offer protection from dangerous individuals and selling drugs is their main source of income. Do you think these kids would risk going to jail every day, just for the heck of it? They are neglected by the system and as a result, they turn to methods of crime to make it out of their
To understand inhumanity one has to grasp the idea of humanity. The internet refers to humanity as “the quality of being humane”. So how would a humane person act? Well, they certainly would not attempt to abolish an entire group of innocent people by burning them to death or making them starve until they are nothing but skin and bones.
In today’s society, there is a major lack of humanity that may not always seem obvious, but it is still there. We see inhumanity is wars, slavery, bullying, persecution regarding religion, murder, and so on.
The inhumanity of man towards man is fueled by the goal of personal advantage and is …show more content…
And the spectators observed these emaciated creatures ready to kill for a crust of bread.” (Wiesel 101)
These prisoners were fighting to the death for a piece a bread. It might seem foolish to us, but for them, that one piece of bread could determine whether they lived to see another day or if they would die from starvation. It directly relates to the common phrase: Every man for himself. If you didn’t fight for your survival you were going to die, end of story.
This idea of doing inhumane things in order to survive can also be seen in the lives of African American youth living in ghettos. The news loves to display black youth engaging in criminal behaviour and how they are becoming so dangerous, but they never focus on why. Everything happens for a reason. African American youth in ghettos are resulting to crime in order to make money and provide for themselves. Their gangs offer protection from dangerous individuals and selling drugs is their main source of income. Do you think these kids would risk going to jail every day, just for the heck of it? They are neglected by the system and as a result, they turn to methods of crime to make it out of their