The Elie Weisel statement was very fascinating I thought. There are two thing in this statement what I thought was interesting. One part is where he was talking about the Soviet Union and how the people there where punished for talking to Elie, and the other part was a note on the paper.
The Soviets commander promised the prisoners that they could speak freely and have no harm done to them. When Elie went back to the U.S. he found out that the people did get harmed and were sent to harsher camps. I don’t really no why this stuck out to me but it is a big ethical dilemma. Elie wanted to get his information but he didn’t want people to get hurt because of him. He asked the people who he talked to if he could use their names in his paper and everyone of the said “Use our names.” They new that they were going to be punished, but they let him use them anyway.
Your note says “Ethics for Weisel is about human to human contact.” I would have to agree with you on that. At the beginning of the paper Elie says things about stronger men and weaker men. It says that a “weaker man isn’t required to do what the stronger man can do.” It’s like a poor guy isn’t required to do what a rich person would do in life, but should help people or himself, that’s how I understood him.
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