Whatever Shall I Do?

It has often occurred to me that someone annoys me in a persistent and derogatory manner, bullying, one could say, and many spectators pretend they can’t hear. It is incredible the way people take the remark “Mind your own business” a little to seriously. I’m not sure if the situation affects their guilty conscience at all, but what I do know for a fact is that people’s will power in general, is crappy. It is not until the aggressor threatens the bystander, that he gets involved. This example can also be noticed in the Holocaust, where it wasn’t until Germany threatened the United States, that the nation got involved. Without this happening, the States would have continued to turn look away. This problem can also be seen in the narrow-mindedness of the English government when faced with the protestant purist orphans and widows. Adams describes this ego-centered attitude with the paragraph “This moving story of a small group of people, driven by a passionate belief in the strict purity of their devotion to the word of God and an equally passionate rejection of worldly authority in favour of a divinely sanctioned life, scarcely registered on the consciousness of England.” Pg. 179 This quote can be sadly recognized as an attitude many people use when faced with the burden of helping someone else.