Not caring is the worst example of what humans can do. It doesn’t seem bad on the surface, but it enables to worst kind of crimes. They’ll care about their children and think that that makes them a good human.

All people had to do during the holocaust was care about their Jewish neighbours. Protest and strike against the Nazis. The Nazis could not cope with the organisation required to wipe out the Jews. They needed help. If no-one helped them, they would have not been able to kill the amount of Jews that they did.

You can help the good by just not helping the bad. You don’t even have to stand up – but just block, delay and ignore them.

From Hannah Arendt’s book on the Adolf Eichmann trial, it would seem that the Italians were very good at this during the war. Even though they were allies to the Germans they were one of the worst at helping the Germans in their task to deport the Jews. They would promise to the Germans that they would deport the Jews and then just not bother. They’d just come up with another excuse each time the Germans asked what was happening. It took the Germans sending all their own generals to really start the deportations. I’m not holding the Italians up as some glorious example of human Christian spirit, it could just be that they’re lazy in general. But according to Arendt they did like the Jews in their country and didn’t want to help the Germans.

Much of non-violent resistance is held within this spirit. When you see organisations doing morally awful things, who come to ask your help, do everything in your power to block, delay and ignore them. Care about the people they are trying to hurt. Resistance is anything that makes the job of hurting people harder. Resisting those who want to hurt is caring for the ones they are trying to hurt.