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NanceGreggs

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1. You are asking questions …
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 05:24 AM
Jan 2016

… that will never be answered.

“What motives and pressures led so many individuals to abandon their fellow human beings? Why did others make the choice to help?”

We’ll never know.

What we DO know is this: Asking those questions causes all of us to do a little soul-searching. They prompt us to ask ourselves what we would have done – will do should such a circumstance present itself again in our lifetime.

I believe that ultimately, a lesson has been learned here. I believe that there are people the world over who have learned how easily they can be persuaded to abandon their humanity. I believe that when we ask ourselves “would I choose to help”, most of us say we would – and in the saying, we have already made our choice before the need to choose has even presented itself.

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank.

I’m with Anne on this one. The lessons of the Holocaust have been brutal, unflinching in their reality, unimaginable in their horror – but they have been learned by many nonetheless. What remains is the need to continue teaching those lessons, so that the phrase “never again” actually becomes the reality of NEVER AGAIN .


You are asking questions … NanceGreggs Jan 2016 #1
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Kick JustAnotherGen Jan 2016 #3
Cognitive/social framing, IMO. JudyM Jan 2016 #4
K&R. proverbialwisdom Jan 2016 #5
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