How to hate silence.

(Straying away from the How To format for a little while tonight.)

What makes something more wrong than right? Is it the actual action or the thought process that goes with it?

Arguably, it's neither. It's silence.

The holocaust (yes, an overly used example, I know) was wrong, and for many reasons. It was wrong because of all the people that were lost. It was wrong because of the horrible things done. But, the shocking thing about it that makes it the absolute worst, is the silence. It was not wrong because of the death and the horrible things, it was wrong because of the silence that came after those things.

A child who steals a candy bar from a store is not a criminal. A child who does not tell anyone about it later and does not try to fix what he has done, is. It's not the action of stealing it that makes it so wrong, its the silence that follows.

When someone makes a mistake, it is not exactly the action that makes it wrong, its the silence after when no one is trying to fix it.

What is wrong is when no one says "I'm sorry" and all you hear is silence. What is wrong is when a child is crying and no one is there to say "it's okay" and all they hear is silence. What is wrong is when someone sees something horrible and no one stands up to say "Please stop," and all we can hear is silence.