1. La definición filosófica de la indiferencia.
Diversas voces coinciden en que el verdadero opuesto de los valores fundamentales del ser humano no es la hostilidad, sino la ausencia total de sentimiento y cuidado.
- The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. Elie wiesel, holocaust survivor.
- The opposite of art is not ugliness, its indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, its indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, its indifference.
- Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy.
2. La indiferencia como una fuerza destructiva y peligrosa.
Se argumenta que la apatía es más dañina que el odio activo, ya que paraliza la resistencia y permite que el mal florezca sin obstáculos.
- Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred. Anger can at times be creative... But indifference is never creative.
- Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself it is more universal, more contagious, more dangerous.
- The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards ones neighbor who lives at the roadside.
3. Neutralidad, silencio y complicidad ante la opresión.
El acto de permanecer neutral en situaciones de injusticia es interpretado como una toma de posición a favor del opresor.
- We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
- Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted the indifference of those who should have known better the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
- Silence is an act of complicity. Indifference to evil is worse than evil itself.
4. Perspectivas políticas sobre la apatía ciudadana.
La historia y la filosofía advierten que la desatención de los ciudadanos hacia los asuntos públicos entrega el poder a regímenes autoritarios o corruptos.
- The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - plato.
- I hate the indifferent. I believe that life means taking sides. One who is really alive, can be nothing if not a citizen and partisan.
- We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust.
5. El impacto emocional y relacional de la indiferencia.
En el ámbito personal, la indiferencia se describe como una forma de violencia psicológica o, en contraste, como un mecanismo de liberación frente al conflicto.
- Ignoring someone is more powerful than hating them. Hate means that you are somehow bothered by the person... Indifference indicates that you just dont care. It is freedom.
- Its better to feel pain, than nothing at all the opposite of loves indifference.
- Indifference reduces the other to an abstraction. Their hidden or even visible anguish is of no interest.