He needed to pass on that lack of concern is more awful than detest or outrage. One could resent bad form or detest malevolent, vicious acts. Apathy is the non appearance of sympathy and suggests something more regrettable than through and through despise; impassion infers an absence of affirmation. Being unconcerned with another's enduring resembles saying, 'you're enduring isn't even worth my thought.' Wiesel talks from his experience of the Holocaust, however this could be connected to any circumstance in history in which the world was apathetic; in which the world resolutely would not recognize languishing of others over any number of baseless reasons:
1) out of sight, out of mind, 2) passivity, laziness, 3) an untried feeling of hopelessness ('what could I possibly do?'), 4) selfishness. When Wiesel speaks of indifference he also means ignorance in 3 senses: 1) ignorant as in lacking sensitivity, 2) lacking knowledge and 3) ignoring.
