Violence During Ww2

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Tolerance is giving every human being every right that is claim by everyone. Often people get so tolerant that they start tolerating the intolerant. During the Holocaust, the Jews learned to tolerate the violence they had to go through. Violence leads to so much hurt - physically and mentally. People must not use violence in order to maintain human rights. Violence promotes more violence. From violence comes a lot of rage and madness knowing people's personal rights are being abused. “Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for machine guns,” (Wiesel 6). When the Germans would kill them brutally the Jews would get so angered. Michael brown was unarmed when he was shot by a police officer, when it was said he was innocence, it …show more content…

Sometimes people are forced to be violent and sometimes people choose to be violent because of what the society influences them to do. A thirteen year old boy was beating up his own father for not doing his bed in a concentration camp (Wiesel 63). In this case he was forced to be aggressive because to mistreat a father even more than the Germans were already treating the Jews is almost unbelievable. Nazi’s were influnces by Hitlers proproganda and they hated the Jews so much because their leader hated them (Human rights issues during and after WWII) They were influenced by society by their leader to be so cruel to Jews, they blamed all of their nation problems on Jews. The violence that people cause to others is intolerant to people who aren't experiencing it but sometimes the people who are getting abused have to tolerate it for a reason. Violence isn't something a human is born with, it's something that is learned and …show more content…

Germans were screaming at the Jews saying they were lazy good-for-nothings who only wanted to stay in bed (Wiesel 109). They thought they were something better than Jews when in reality Germans and Jews were the same, only difference they had was a religion. In another case in the late 1700s, slave masters mistreated slaves to the point where they were defenseless (slavery in the U.S). Slaves couldn't run to anywhere, they were trapped there because the white folks thought of them as animals. While people thought they were superior to the black people but the only difference was their skin color. There is no lesser person than anyone else, everyone is equal to another. The people who are thought of the lesser people have to tolerate the ignorant people who swear they are something better. In some situations, violence is the answer when abusing human rights. When a person is being beat, using violence to get away would be acceptable. Using violence against violence will perpetuate even more violence. During domestic violence the children see the father beat up their mother, later on when they will grow up and do the same. The violence they see is causing them to believe it is alright to do it which perpetuates more violence one later in the