indifference

Elie Wiesel had many things to say on indifference that I completely agree with. He said that indifference is a horrible thing. It only leads to death. His statements about how he wished that the world would have intervened with Hitler much sooner because it would have saved millions of lives. He said indifference is the worst state ever, because it brings nothing. He’s right that indifference is tempting, I find myself almost everyday trying to be indifferent about things, especially problems with peers just so I don’t have to get involved even though I could probably help them out. It really shows a darker side of humanity, a greedy, self serving side that is in all of us. I understand his urging of the world to stop all of these atrocities but I believe it is impossible to accomplish what he wants to do. People might act for a little bit, but often we grow weary of selfless helping of others. We eventually get frustrated and want to give up. Much like the situation in the Middle East. There are many good intentions and good things happening in the Middle East, but many people want us to leave Iraq immediately. Its also hard to help people when some of them don’t want to be helped. Today there are things happening in the world that we should intervene in, but it would cost us too much. Sudan, China, North Korea, all of these countries have human rights issues that should be fixed immediately. Starvation, genocide, extreme censorship, but still we sit here idle. Even with Sudan, which wouldn’t be a costly mission (by comparison) and we still do nothing and let those poor people die day after day. Why aren’t America, NATO, the United Nations, and the EU doing anything in Sudan to stop the atrocities there? The most powerful groups in the world do nothing about the crimes against humanity in Sudan. Indifference. its just another case of indifference leading to deaths of innocent.