The Eichmann Trial In Retrospect Essay, Research Paper

Prejudice is among the top reasons for man’s injustice towards one another. An example of this type of hatred was during the Holocaust. As Eban has mentioned “Man is the only animal able to transmit experience. And the transmission of experience is the central core of education and moral progress. Memory is the father conscience. The issue is whether we should wipe from the tablets of memory the most vivid evidence of the consequences flowing from chauvinism, racial discrimination, and inhumanity. The question must be answered in the name of the future not of the past. Man is the only animal that has ever shown a tendency to destroy its own species. He may now become the first and only creature to devastate its habitat.” (Page 191) This statement plays an important role in deciding what mankind’s crimes really and truly are. Another statement that would show the validity of this question would be “Beyond this issue is the question of whether we are safe against a renewal of the tragedy. We may become so if we save it from oblivion and deduce its lessons in the political, social, and educational domains.” These two statements are showing how man has the ability to learn from the past and deduce what kind of atrocity that has occurred, yet the people do not even attempt to try to remedy this hatred.

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Abba Eban