Question

Which of the following selections best explains the meaning of the passage below (paragraph 11)?

Answer 1

The general answer given below about the passage "Indifference the, is not only a sin, it is a punishment" is likely to help you answer the question. The reason for this general answer is that I was unable to find the answer choices for this question online:

- In his speech "The Perils of Indifference," Elie Wiesel discusses how apathy in front of human suffering can lead to a tragedy.

- By saying that indifference is a punishment, he means that being indifferent (doing nothing) when seeing others suffering is the same as hurting them.

- When we do not help a victim, we are siding with the criminal. When we do not feed the hungry or aide the sick, we are watching them die. Therefore, indifference is as cruel as hurting others.

• Elie Wiesel is a survivor of the Holocaust. Therefore, he knows what it feels like to be beaten, starved, tortured and have no one at all help you.

• Wiesel knows, thus, how awful indifference is. As he suffered in the hands of the Nazi, he wondered why no one did anything to help.

• Why didn't other countries intervene to free the prisoners? Why were people watching millions of people die, killed by a cruel regime, without doing anything to stop it?

• In "The Perils of Indifference," Wiesel condemns inaction, apathy, inertia.

• According to him, doing nothing is as good as harming. If you don't help, you contribute to the suffering.

• The only one who gains something from indifference is the criminal, the aggressor.

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