Sublime

In her novel Stones from the River, set in Nazi Germany, Ursula Hegi reveals the suffering of the “other” in a startling way.

against all those who use violence to defend their ideals, territory, or ideology,

Hans Asperger, after whom it was named, was a Nazi collaborator. He sentenced most people he identified as autistic to death or institutionalization, selecting only certain specific types of autistic people—those who presented with what would later be called Asperger’s—as worth saving, as “real” citizens, because

Principled Opposition: Example 3 We affirm that discrimination and bigotry against sexual minorities remains a problem in society and requires addressing. We deny that this problem can be solved by queer Theory, which attempts to render all categories relevant to sex, gender, and sexuality meaningless. We contend that homophobia and transphobia are

A major factor in the colossal moral failures which made the Shoah possible was the nonresponse of the bystanders.

The lesson of the Holocaust was that in the face of overwhelming concentration of power, acts of self-sacrifice and spiritual demonstration had little or no effect on the murderers. Classic moral traditions—martyrdom in Judaism, satyagraha in Hinduism, the cross and turning the other cheek in Christianity—were shattered in the Holocaust. Nor did th