Quote

"When you have a choice to make and you don't make it, that in itself is a choice."

     A historical example that can show the validity of this quote is the Holocaust.  People knew what was going on, and they made a choice and decided not to say anything.  Even though those people did nothing, they still made a choice to not do anything.

      This quote is very connected to the holocaust, for the reason I said above.  People made the choice to not do anything about the brutal treatment of the Jews.  But also, the Jews didn't really try to do anything and they made the choice to not do anything. Frankly, they couldn't really do anything.  Other countries had a choice to make and help the Jews and stop this treatment, but they didn't, and that was their choice to not do anything.

     The types of things that prevent people from standing up for people or for what they know is the right thing is how people will think of you after.  If your group of friends was bullying a little kid with no friends, and you stuck up for the kid, your "friends" will diss you and bully you now too.  It's sad that doing the right thing actually doesn't help you, your only making things worse for yourself.  Sometimes you have to just do it, you have to get in other people's business and not be a bystander.  You have to not care what people are going to think about you, and if they were your real friends, they would get where your coming from and would understand it's the right thing.

     There has been many instances in my school and in my life where someone has not
stood up for the right thing.  For example, my friend and I witnessed someone being talked mean to and being trashed talked.  If my friend and I did the right thing, we would have told the people who were trash talking to stop and made them stop and apologize.


From,

  Seth