In Webster's Online Dictionary, there is a certain definition set for 'indifference.' However, I would like to try defining it myself. Indifferece is when someone is apathetic towards someone or something; a.k.a. they don't really car. It is a lack of emotion. For example: 1 - I was indifferent to what my roommate did as long as it didn't affect me. 2 - Someone gets killed right in front of you and it doesn't eve faze you. You don't react.
As Elie Wiesel portrayed in her essay entitled The Perils of Indifference, indifference is making a choice not to make a choice.
You often have to force yourself to be indifferent similar to what Peter Parker did when he decided not to be Spiderman. Indifference makes us inhuman. Sometimes indifference is confused with greed and selfishness. Both actions take away a person’s humanity. Was Christ ever indifferent? However, is indifference always bad? Can we ever enjoy a good meal? Do we have to practice indifference to keep sane, live and function? Can indifference make us in some way human? The only way you can be righteously indifferent is if you are indifferent of your own suffering.
As Elie Wiesel portrayed in her essay entitled The Perils of Indifference, indifference is making a choice not to make a choice.
You often have to force yourself to be indifferent similar to what Peter Parker did when he decided not to be Spiderman. Indifference makes us inhuman. Sometimes indifference is confused with greed and selfishness. Both actions take away a person’s humanity. Was Christ ever indifferent? However, is indifference always bad? Can we ever enjoy a good meal? Do we have to practice indifference to keep sane, live and function? Can indifference make us in some way human? The only way you can be righteously indifferent is if you are indifferent of your own suffering.
