The biblical rule, of treating others as one wishes to be treated, represents the basic principle people have been taught to act upon in society - fairness. After the horrifying acts that took place during WWI and WWII, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established in order to better assure fairness in the world and to declare the basic rights and freedoms all human beings are obliged to have. Additionally, it states that human rights are to be enjoyed by all people, regardless of who they are or where they live; while also including civil and political rights such as the right to live, freedom of speech, and privacy. In Elie Wiesel’s Night, Wiesel shares an impeccable account and the overlying theme of the dehumanizing macabre that is referred to as the Holocaust- particularly the idea that if one is treated as subhuman, death overrules innocence, the fight for survival results the loss of feelings, and extreme starvation outweighs all. …show more content…
With a balance of coexistence and socialism, One of the major greek philosophers Aristotle expressed that “ Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either [not noticed] or more than human”. Unfortunately, during the Holocaust Jewish people were robbed of their ability to socialize with one another, not because they were more than human as Aristotle said, but dehumanized and deemed as less. This motion is shown particularly in the autobiography, by accounts of how innocence was overruled by death, how the fight for survival resulted in the loss of feelings, and how extreme starvation outweighed