Melbourne

Last night I watched Judgement in Nuremberg again, for the 11th time. Time to get preachy.

This time I watched to see every single instance where an everyday person could have done the right thing and saved a person

to see what everyday people can do and what people really did.

This movie is real life, it was taken from transcripts, so these are real actions real people took.

So in little ways, and it all adds up to a big picture, many people did the moral thing and the legal thing. They refused to wear a swastika, they defended people who were attacked . They refused to falsely accuse people.

Where people failed, they did not do the moral thing and they did not follow the law. The police did not charge the attackers. People made false accusations. They made false judgements. Each instance adds up to a bad society.

the servants who said they could do nothing could have encouraged their son to be a conscientious objector. They could have protested the death camp, they could have resigned from working for a war criminal. Yes, it has a cost but the cost of not doing that was far far greater.

we must follow our consciences and remember that each small action we take reinforces our personal and social belief that each individual has value.

thank you for listening

do not give up being a good person, it is our greatest weapon against evil

what I mean to say, we don't have to do big things to fight, just being our good selves in everyday life is fighting , so we don't have to feel hopeless and like we can't do anything