The beauty of thinking…
November 19, 2009
Tonight’s post has nothing to do with public relations. Tonight’s post is about questions.
I just finished watching Schlinder’s List. My heritage is mostly German. However, this movie made me think, more than any other movie has.
The Holocaust is something we all learn about in school, and we are taught and we absorb different amounts. So why, after graduating from high school and earning my B.A., does it take a movie to make me ask questions?
Whether you believe that we were all created as equals by God or not, what makes it right for certain people to treat others in the most horrific of ways? What makes someone think that they are entitled to a better life? What gives one person the right to take another’s life?
How can one person influence thousands of others to abuse, beat, and ultimately take the lives of millions of others? And, if we truly are a “more educated” society, then why do we allow this? Why was Hitler’s genocide so effective?
What concerns me more is that this is still going on, all over the world, and still, we don’t do anything.
In my opinion, we are all equal, and not because God made us that way. We are equal because we are all human beings; we co-exist on a planet where we depend on each other. Where I work, others come to buy their groceries, and they rely on my co-workers and I to have the groceries in stock. My co-workers and I rely on each other to determine the needs of the department. It goes further up and down.
You may not even realize that you depend on so many people you don’t know. Would your opinion of those people change based on the color of their skin, their religious beliefs, and their sexuality? And if you do think less of someone because of those, or any other factor, what gives you the right to judge? How does any of it affect you?
So I invite you all to think. Take a few minutes out of your day and really evaluate your opinions. If you can justify them that is great, that is the point of thinking through your opinions. I encourage you to take it one step further and talk about your opinions with those around you. If you do this, I suggest that you do so with an open mind. Open minds lead to open conversation, and someone else may have something to say that you never would have thought about. Open your mind to the possibilities.
