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Apathy

"Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the of human beings." Some might think that whenHelen Keller spoke those words, she was talking of some exotic disease that affects people in the slums. Or that she was speaking of an abnormality that can be found only in the mentally unstable. Those who believe those falsehoods are truly mistaken. She was not talking of a disease or a problem that affects only one group of people, but one that affects society as a whole. is not some dreaded illness that attacks only the weak. is instead a base part of humanity, one that we as a people would rather not admit to, even as it stares ...

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and will continue to plague us until we realize that our minute lives are not all that matters in this world.
, or indifference, is rampant in today's society. Millions of deaths can be attributed to the disinterest of others. For example, during World War II, millions of people were killed by the Nazis while the rest of the world looked on. People ignored the deeds of Hitler and the Third Reich because it did not directly affect them. It was not just people in other countries who ignored the cries for help from the oppressed, but neighbors of the victims as well. Martin Niemoeller, a Holocaust survivor, illustrates the passiveness that he felt during that time, and how his led to his departure to a concentration camp. He states, "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because ...

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Added: 12/7/2004 03:20:54 PM
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