INDIFFERENCE

Of all the misfortunes the earth can inflict on us, indifference is the one that does the most harm, directly and especially indirectly. Someone said before me that indifference is the greatest contempt.

What does the dictionary say about this word?
The tranquil state of a person who neither desires nor rejects a thing. And I would add that it refers to a person who is unmoved, uninterested and rather insensitive.

A very recent example is the Ukraine-Russia war, which has been going on for two months now, and which moved the whole world at the start, but two months later, given that it's going on without any positive outcome, the world seems to have lost interest. Fatigue has taken over.

Let me draw a parallel with the Second World War. Hitler enjoyed killing Jews in every possible way, and only about twenty of the world's hundred countries opposed him. The United States, powerful as it appeared to be, didn't enter the game until after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and England declared war only after Hitler had publicly identified it as his next target.
The rest of the world was indifferent.

Let me go further. There may be talk that China, seeing what's going on between Russia and Ukraine, may attack or even invade Taiwan, which it claims as its own. And tell me, how many countries will come to Taiwan's aid? We have another major indifference on our hands.

Let's look around us and try to see, perhaps understand, even justify our behavior.
Let's take a step back and think about the indifference of the world that led to the crimes of the Third Reich, and the whole world suffered as a result.
In conversations with Holocaust survivors, one senses the real fear of revisiting the seeds of hatred that were set in motion as part of the "Final Solution". These honorable, good people who had done nothing wrong - except that, in the eyes of Germany, they had been born Jewish... everything was taken away from them.

Their parents. Their families. Their homes. Everything.
Isn't that the worst sin against our fellow human beings, not to hate them, but rather to despise them with indifference?

What has become of faith? I believe that what has killed faith today is not atheism, but rather indifference. And if complacency is indifference, is that what our world offers us most truly, its indifference? For complacency is often indifference. If sympathy is a principle of life, why has it suddenly been lost?

While man does his best to transform the world, he suffers from the world's indifference to him. It's curious to note that for some, indifference is freedom, that through it they attain love. Crazy, isn't it? By the way, if you answer a question with: As you wish', there's indifference there too. Politeness itself can be considered indifference.

It begs the question: does indifference have its own wisdom? And if indifference is silence, doesn't silence become consent? Another might say that the opposite of love is not hatred, but rather indifference.

It seems that happiness and unhappiness end where indifference begins.  How can you change or influence an indifferent person when he's as good as dead, with no ears and no heart.
I've found a very sympathetic parallel: a soul that has fallen into indifference is like stagnant water that putrefies and poisons itself for lack of movement and fluctuation, because indifference is an incurable evil.
it's chronic injustice.

In conclusion, I'm afraid to say that in this world indifference dominates, it's apathetic. Is there a way to cure indifference? Especially if it's emotional and causes damage that can haunt a lifetime. As adults, we can do the healing ourselves by exploring the symptoms and addressing our emotional needs, while breaking the cycle of neglect in our relationships with others.