In a way, to be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman. Indifference, after
all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem,
a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the
injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end.
(A)The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees — not to respond to their plight, not to relieve
their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory.
(B)And in denying their humanity we betray our own. Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment.
(C)And this is one of the most important lessons of this outgoing century’s wide-ranging experiments in good and evil.
(D)We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. What will the legacy of this vanishing century be?
(E)And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor — never his victim, whose pain
is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
The ans. is E.
all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem,
a great symphony, one does something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the
injustice that one witnesses. But indifference is never creative. Even hatred at times may elicit a response. You fight it. You denounce it. You disarm it. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end.
(A)The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees — not to respond to their plight, not to relieve
their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory.
(B)And in denying their humanity we betray our own. Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment.
(C)And this is one of the most important lessons of this outgoing century’s wide-ranging experiments in good and evil.
(D)We are on the threshold of a new century, a new millennium. What will the legacy of this vanishing century be?
(E)And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor — never his victim, whose pain
is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.
The ans. is E.
