I hate the let's compete and see whois the worst victims. Let's se who's worsean, i think that's a horrible mistake. A coping with the past is an enormously important part of the human experience. Who you are is partly where you came from, and it's where you want to go. That's one of our great gifts as human beings. We can look to the future, and i don't think you can ignore it. It gets neglected by an over emphasis on science and precise result in three decimal places. I love this line for bacaso: "They don't all they give you is answers"
In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing water without soap--not because they thought it would make them cleaner, but because it helped them hold on to their dignity. For poet and author Dwayne Betts, Levi's description of his fellow inmates' suffering, much like the novelist Ralph Ellison's portrayal of early twentieth-century black life in America, is much more than bearing witness to the darkest impulses of mankind. Rather, Betts tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts, both authors' writing turns experiences of inhumanity into lessons on what it means to be a human being.