Holding on to Our Humanity

In "Holding On to Our Humanity", by Bob Herbert, a well-known, national Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, suggests that most people will grow ignore the suffering of people in other parts of the world for peaceful daily lives. He gives the readers various atrocities that people tend to avoid thinking about like mass murder, torture, oppression of people and finally the killing of innocent babies. Herbert wrote this article to remind us that ignoring the problem of the world not only make them go away, but prolong it ever further. His audience is the general public and to inform them about the events going on in the world. But this article is only one of many different pieces that confront this matter on humanity.

People with comfortable lives tend to focus only on that, but other human are neglected because of this and the consequences are terrible. The Holocaust is just one of many infamous examples of human violence and indifference, while it started cause of one's man misplaced hated of the Jewish people, but it continued as long as it did because of how long it took for people around the free world to said enough and finally intervene. Those who have suffered because of great cruelty compare being mistreated against being ignored by humanity or God himself have agreed that being forgotten is far worse than any punishment that can happen to them.

Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust and describes indifference as a seductive, unnatural friend of the enemy because it magnified the pain that they are already suffering because of being exile from the human race. But the greatest part of the sin of indifference as Elie put it is that not only is seeing a other man life as meaningless is a horrible act of selfness, but it punishes the people who use it by taking away their own humanity as payment.