The Troubles with Ignorance and Carelessness

In the movie "A Walk To Remember", Landon Carter who is the popular, good looking jock in his high school wants to welcome his new classmate to his club, but under one condition; He is to dive off a very tall bridge that is not only dangerous because of the depth of water and undertow, but illegal. He ends up in hospital brutally hurt for a long time after. Landon who is a good guy, was conditioned to make someone do something he knew was wrong, in turn, doing wrong himself. The story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson relates directly to the speech "The Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel. The ending of Jackson's story comes as a complete and utter shock to it's readers when perfectly normal and passive people (as we know them, anyway) stone an innocent lady (as done annually) simply because she won the "lottery". After reading through this story, though some may argue that the people in these situations don't know any better, we see that its point is that good people can be conditioned to do bad and evil things without knowing the bad and evil in it. This is the exact topic spoken about in Wiesel's speech when he discusses the Holocaust. Though sad and sometimes unbelievable, this very true fact can occur in so many ways on many different scales and can become reality easily to many society's, races, countries, and people in general.