Imagine a world where every morning you wake up, you take a shower, you make your breakfast, and you turn on the news. In this world every morning on the news you hear of thousands of people being killed due to something they can’t control. These people are being targeted for the color of their skin, their religion and whom they love. Imagine that no one speaks up, the mass murder of thousands of innocent people is just the social norm. In a world like that, is there any humanity left? In a world like that, shouldn't we speak up and do something? Elie Wiesel a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the author of “Night” provokes this thought within his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. In his speech Wiesel makes his point of view on situations such …show more content…
[...] Action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.” After sincerely thinking about genocide and the type of world I wish to live in, I have come to the conclusion that I do agree with Wiesel’s viewpoint that individuals, and nations have the responsibility to take action when acts such as genocide occur.
My basis of judgement derives from a combination of religious beliefs, and moral upbringings. Just about everyone heard at least once while growing up The Golden Rule. This rule is simply known as “treat others as you wish to be treated”,which stems from the Bible in Matthew 7:12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” Throughout my childhood, I carried this lesson with me; The Golden Rule showed to be very prevalent in the day to day life of an elementary school student, and more often than not when this rule was practiced it resulted in positivity. This rule not only shows the type of world I hope to live in, but also the type of world I hope to bring a family into one day. The Golden Rule resembles a cycle of a positive community; what (aside from materialist objects) do an abundant amount of people desire in this world? The