My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

I was watching this documentary that went through the Nazi propaganda films and talked about the atrocities of the war. The problem i have with the piece is that they paint a picture of the townsfolk around the concentration camps as bad people. These people are normal people like you and I who have been swept up in circumstances that seem beyond our control. They are not any more bad of a person as someone who lets Iraqi prisoner abuse continue, or someone who lets gaols exist, or someone who lets the environment be destroyed around them in the name of big business without even raising an eyebrow.

Inaction doesn't necessarily make you a bad person - it can mean any number of things. It can mean you are: scared; naive; misguided; or overwhelmed. I often get overwhelmed by things that are beyond my control. I get upset at things that are beyond my control. I find there are so many things that are beyond my control. I sat there tonight thinking : "What in the hell would I have done in the same situation?". The fact that I cannot answer that question scares me - I do not know what I would have done in that situation. I cannot know what I would have done in that situation until I was in it.

What would you have done? What will you do?