Prompt 3.
What happens to the world when we all lose
compassion for our fellow man?
When people start to lose compassion for
the ones they love, life becomes a free for all, and a survival of the fittest.
When people start to only consider the best for themselves. An example of
Eliezer losing compassion was when Blockalteste told Eliezer that “you are in a
concentration camp. In this place, it is every man for himself, and you can not
think of others. Not even your father. In this place, there is no such thing as
a father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good
advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You
cannot help him anymore” (110). This shows how even how much he loves his
father he has become a burden and he believes that if he didn’t have to deal
with this burden surviving the holocaust would be near impossible. And when a
human starts to believe this it can lead to a loss of your loved ones, and give
a person no purpose in life. Although life had very hard, they were near the
end of all this madness, and if he could keep compassion in mind it would have
gave him more hope, and could have done much as kept his beloved father alive.
Another example of when Eliezer began to
lose compassion was when he was searching for his father and he thought, “ If
only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could
use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care of only myself”
(106). This shows that he was hoping to not find his father to not find the
person that had kept him alive thorough these struggles. If he had not found
his father we would have been relieved for he wouldn’t have to deal with his
burden and wouldn’t have to give up his source of survival to someone else.
This proves that once you lose compassion that it will diminish the chances of
overcoming other challenges that one may face.
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