![]() All three are, however, deeply dissatisfied with their lives. To be more personal and concrete: At the moment I have three acquaintances, each of whom has had a reasonably successful corporate career - one as an investment manager in the City, the second as a senior executive of an international sporting organisation, and the third as a partner of a global accounting firm. And, like the SS guards at a Nazi death camp, we are unaware of the moral peril of our situation, and unwilling to remove ourselves from that situation even when its harmful effects are obvious. We are all inevitably involved in this larger problem. But it is, I think, also relevant more generally to the way in which human beings get ensnared incrementally into the evils of their society. The Reader is a profound exposition of the 'second generation' issues concerning moral guilt for the Holocaust. ![]()
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