If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Social breakdown and dehumanization lead to organized abandonment like concentration camps.
- In plain terms
- Violence and lack of connection lead to camps.
- What can you take from it?
- Dehumanization leads to organized abandonment.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where is social responsibility failing?
- How do we prevent dehumanization?
Another view
Not all violence leads to such extreme consequences.
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