Violence Through View Of Jewish Philosopher
...suburban city near Moscow during the Perestroika' period. The baby was growing up without any knowledge of what was happening in the world outside his family. The baby's life was filled with toys, food, warm blankets and surrounded with loving adults. He was not aware of hunger, man-made or nature-made pain through violent acts or floods, fear or death. As the baby aged into a boy and later into young man, he faced vast volumes of human history. One day he picked up 20th century volume, as he was looking through the pages, he stopped and read a nine letter word: HOLOCAUST.' He looked down at the first sentence and started reading: "Jews were sent to ghettos and camps because their own and only offense was the Jewish blood that flowed in their veins
The Holocaust stretched over six years. Those were years when every minute, every second, every split second held more than it could bear. Pain and fear reigned, but even then, in the midst of hunger and humiliation, the amazement sprouted: "Is this a man?" (Appelfeld, 2005, p.239).
He asked himself why would a human being purposely single out another human being on the basis of ethnicity or physical appearance. Aren't we all human beings residing on the planet earth? Why don't we acknowledge our humanity first, and use our differences as a way to celebrate our uniqueness?' The thought passed through his mind as It's impossible. It has never happened in the world history. Human beings were and still are engaged in fight for resources and power. Since the hunter gathering societies, human beings created the world model as such that humans built relations among themselves by introducing the fact of being different by blood, race, and religion. Such relations created the need to consolidate the resources in the hands of one group while trying to exclude others from obtaining them without a payment. The result of...
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