A person’s view of the world and the rights and wrongs of it come from how they were raised. We do not all grow up believing the exact same things. One person may believe that and “eye for an eye” is the correct revenge, while another person may say that an “eye for an eye” does not solve the problem at all, it merely just enforces that harming others is okay. This difference in the view of the world can greatly change a person’s perspective of what they have done to others. In Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil we see that Eichmann’s perspective of the wrongs that he has committed is that he is okay with what he did. It is how he was raised and what he saw through childhood and his many moves to different places
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He says how he does not feel any regret for the things that he did. This goes back to how he was raised. He was taught to follow rules growing up and he did just that while in the Nazi party, so he does not regret following the rules even if it meant ordering the killing of Jews. This is easy for me to understand why he followed the rules. As a child if I did not follow the rules of my family then there was a punishment that followed. Even today if I would decide to disobey the rules and cheat on an exam then there would be consequences that would follow. Eichmann was just following the rules that were set in front of him. However, it is hard for me to understand why he would stay with the Nazi party when the rules consisted of killing innocent people. This is especially confusing to me because Eichmann said that he did not hate Jews. In my mind, it is easier to wish bad things upon someone who you hate, but I would never be able to harm someone that I liked or didn’t know anything about. Eichmann also went so far to say that he would rather be hung as an example for anti-Semitism that to regret what he had done. He implied that as an adult you should own your actions, as regret is for children. That final statement is one that I agree with; however, a person’s actions should never go so far that people
He says how he does not feel any regret for the things that he did. This goes back to how he was raised. He was taught to follow rules growing up and he did just that while in the Nazi party, so he does not regret following the rules even if it meant ordering the killing of Jews. This is easy for me to understand why he followed the rules. As a child if I did not follow the rules of my family then there was a punishment that followed. Even today if I would decide to disobey the rules and cheat on an exam then there would be consequences that would follow. Eichmann was just following the rules that were set in front of him. However, it is hard for me to understand why he would stay with the Nazi party when the rules consisted of killing innocent people. This is especially confusing to me because Eichmann said that he did not hate Jews. In my mind, it is easier to wish bad things upon someone who you hate, but I would never be able to harm someone that I liked or didn’t know anything about. Eichmann also went so far to say that he would rather be hung as an example for anti-Semitism that to regret what he had done. He implied that as an adult you should own your actions, as regret is for children. That final statement is one that I agree with; however, a person’s actions should never go so far that people