Inhumanity in our Societies

There has always been disputes and wars. Most of them devastating. We are inhumane and so intent on violence, we don't seem to know what we are doing anymore. We are indifferent to the violence. In "The Lottery", by Shirley Jackson, the village dwellers have the lottery every year, and each year, stone one person to death. It is something that they have been doing for years, passed on from generation to generation. It is something that they have become indifferent to. It's just a tradition now. When there is talk about giving it up, Old Man Warner objects, saying "nothing but trouble in that. Pack of young fools." Indifference is not only in the story of the lottery, it is present today, in our past, and our future. Elie Wiesel gave a speech to the president about his gratitude to America for saving him from Nazi Germany. But he brings into view the indifference that the troops and the president had towards the refugees as they were on the shores of America. They were sent away, back to the place they fled. Back to the place they would surely die. We as humans are not perfect. We as humans, however, are full of indifference and violence. It is a part of life. We cant run and hide from it, but we can try to change it.