"The Perils of Indifference"

Wiesel is not messing around with poetic or cutesy titles. He doesn't have the time—what he has to say is serious business, and he needs to be crystal clear about one thing:

There are some serious perils to indifference.

In fact, the perils of indifference greatly outweigh the ease and the cursory feeling of the safety of indifference. Sure, behaving in an indifferent manner might seem simple, but it comes at a huge cost. Innocent people perish at the hands of an indifferent public. And, if that's not motivation enough to start caring, Wiesel states that the act of being indifferent erodes the humanity of the person being indifferent.

Indifference is perilous through and through. In fact, the only way to keep the dark history of the 20th century from repeating itself is to kick the indifference habit for good.