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Carol Cabrera
Humanities
1/27/14
Banksy Quote Reflection
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages”
I chose to reflect to this quote because I can relate this to many things, but one in particular matches up very well with this quote, the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, German soldiers were given orders to treat Jews like animals and were abused. Even though Hitler commanded that all Jews in Germany be eliminated, these soldiers could have still done something about it, rather than killing countless numbers of people in terrible ways. I also think it relates to my old conflict, the Rwandan Genocide, because the Hutu extremists started a genocide after the Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was assassinated. The soldiers that carried out the orders of said extremists could have simply not killed any Tutsis and there would have never been a genocide, but they were following orders.
Carol Cabrera
Humanities
1/27/14
Banksy Quote Reflection
“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages”
I chose to reflect to this quote because I can relate this to many things, but one in particular matches up very well with this quote, the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, German soldiers were given orders to treat Jews like animals and were abused. Even though Hitler commanded that all Jews in Germany be eliminated, these soldiers could have still done something about it, rather than killing countless numbers of people in terrible ways. I also think it relates to my old conflict, the Rwandan Genocide, because the Hutu extremists started a genocide after the Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was assassinated. The soldiers that carried out the orders of said extremists could have simply not killed any Tutsis and there would have never been a genocide, but they were following orders.