The Perils Of Indifference Summary

Human rights for all will never be met fully. There are always going to be people who will be deprived of these rights, or have them taken away by others. Humanity has barely even scratched the surface of using these rights, and haven’t even started on enforcing them for all.
There is no way to enforce human rights. There will always be those who turn a blind eye to what others may be going through. In Elie Wisel’s speech “The Perils of Indifference”, he gives an example of someone as important as a leader of a country can be one of these people, “And that ship, which was already in the shores of the United States was sent back” (The Perils of Indifference 80-81). With this as a problem there is another one that walks with turning a blind eye to others. The time it takes. Human rights for everyone will take more time than Humanity would like. Generation Z won’t even live to see it begin to happen, “And yet my friends, good things

have also happened in this traumatic century: the defeat of Nazism, the collapse of Communism, the rebirth of Israel on its ancestral soil, the demise of the apartheid, Israel’s peace treaty with Egypt, [and] the peace accord in Ireland” (The Perils of Indifference 93-95). Knowing that these things can change is relieving to people as a whole, but the amount of time this takes is crucial to how as people may or may not have human rights for all.
With the discussion of human rights, there will always be those to take away at least one of those rights as a human in one way or another, “It was over.

I had not realized it, but I had fainted. I came to when they doused me with cold water. I was still lying on the crate. In a blur I could see the wet ground next to me. Then I heard someone yell. It had to be the Kapo” (Elie Wiesel “Night” 58). Some humans by nature are cruel, and don’t care if they torture, starve, or even kill another human life. Some of this is even carried out on some of the most primitive rights. Even now these rights are being taken with brute force, “Due to her increased prominence, both in Pakistan and around the world, the Taliban target Malala. A masked gunman boards Malala’s school bus and asks for her by name. He shoots Malala in the head, neck and shoulder” (Malala’s Story  Malala Fund, www.malala.org/malalas-story?). Just for going to school she was almost killed. It is an easy right to enforce, but people like Malala’s assailants will always

exist.
Some people will say that there is evidence that people have already started enforcing human rights for everyone. An example is now all the marches and peaceful protests, numerous people are taking a part of as their right to. With that, it took until now to start using and implementing that right. Yet, while humanity is gaining more and more rights, there are primitive ones that are not being met that are crucial to survival. The right to shelter and food is one of them. There is still a vast amount of homelessness and starvation all over the world, but no one has thought to enforce this right on a global scale.
In conclusion, Humanity has a great deal of work to do. Even then everyone’s rights will never be perfectly met. There will always be someone who will be left hungry, homeless, and beaten. For human rights to truly take effect it must take the voices of everyone in this world.