David Culley@davidculley@hachyderm.io
I recommend you watch the movie "Schindler's list", which tells the story of how one person saved hundreds of humans from death during a genocide.
It's available from Apple TV for 10 bucks. You could have it ready on your device to watch within a minute.
Schindler, a wealthy man, gives away all his money to buy free imprisoned jews from concentration camps. He gives expensive gifts to corrupt guards; for example, an expensive watch to save two jews, a married couple. Since, to the corrupt guards, it's all the same whether they kill two less or more now, ten less or more now. Eventually they'll get them anyway, in their minds.
Towards the end, after the war is over, Schindler has an emotional breakdown. He realizes that he's still in possession of a car that he could have given away and rescued ten more people in exchange for it. He realizes he still has a button on his suit, a golden button. He could've traded that for one more person, rescued one more person and he didn't. Schindler—the man who had saved about a thousand of jews from certain death—has an emotional breakdown because he comes to tell himself that he could've done more but didn't. Think about that for a second.
Meanwhile, the jews he had saved, had melted their golden teeth to make a ring for Schindler, with the engraving "Whoever saves one live, saves the world entire."
Save one life and save the world entire.
I watched that movie in my room, on a 4K monitor. I'm sitting in my apartment, surrounded by expensive things, and I'm drinking cool refreshments, eating a little bit of ice cream. I'm surrounded by a MacBook, multiple Linux computers, a Nintendo Switch and an Xbox, a piano and a guitar … you get the point. All this fancy stuff. I don't know about you … thinking about Schindler, after watching that movie … did I do all I could? Could I've done more? Schindler, who started as a millionaire, gave away all his wealth to save lives.
Could I have done more? That's the question I ask myself. The question everyone will eventually ask themselves, at some point in their life, sooner or later. And the answer to that question is something everybody will have to live with for the rest of their lives. 1/2
#genocide #gaza #palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9vj2Wf57rQ