perils of indifference

it is bad that some humans are treated unfairly and other people don't seem to care that people like them are being abused.

In the story the lottery it seemed like it was a normal village with normal people who thought they were normal. I seemed this way until the loser of the lottery was brutally stoned to death by the rest of the village including her own family. When they were stoning here they all thought it was normal. When the village found out that a different village stopped having the lottery they thought it was wrong and crazy. A similar example that I can recall is Gladiator. In the movie it shows a normal functioning city with many people. Then thousands of people crowd into a giant Colosseum to watch people fight animals and other humans to the death. It seemed normal to them because it happened on a regular basis.

In the story the lottery people think it is alright to harm and kill other people. In the story Perils of indifferece people not in the concentration camps dont have a problem with killing other people as long as it is not them or their families.