When evil is occurring, bystanders need to step in. The German people should have stopped the Nazis but honestly I don’t blame them. I believe most countries would have done the same exact thing. When your family is starving and a political leader is claiming that he can bring your country back to its feet, wouldn’t you follow him too? Wouldn’t you blame the group for your poverty that your government blames? Then when your country is thriving again and you can feed your family, wouldn’t you just follow the man who did that? Most citizens didn’t know about concentration camps but nothing of what I just said truly excuses them from ridiculing Jews in the street. Honestly, I would have too though. I’d probably treat Jews bad too so I didn’t get beat or imprisoned. In Macbeth, the bystanders really couldn’t do anything because they didn’t know what was going on.

                I believe that those who carry out the orders are guilty but not of a capital crime. What is the crime for disobeying orders in the US army? Well the punishment for Nazi soldiers was even worse. Mostly likely in a US military court, the soldier won’t be executed but in a Nazi Germany, there really wasn’t a trial…it was pretty much stand by that wall and wait for a “lead injection” (if you know what I mean) or have a date with a rope. Now those who did it out of fun and pleasure can burn in Hell but those who were forced, I have sympathy for. For the Nazi Pharmacist, I am not sure if he is truly guilty. He deserves jail time but I don’t know if he is completely guilty. On the other hand he did decide to kill certain people but could he have been forced? And it is true, if he did refuse all of those Jews would have been killed anyway For the old soldier, I believe he is one of the more innocent soldiers because he tried to make his camp better. If it wasn’t for him many more POW’s may have been killed.  In Macbeth’s case, that time, when your king tells you to do something…you do it, no questions asked. You don’t just say no to the ruler of your country who can do whatever they want. I have some sympathy for the murderers because I don’t believe, that in that time, you can’t just say no to your King.

                I believe the only way to stop evil is to have thousands of heroes. I believe the American Revolution was standing up against evil (King George) and it took thousands of people to stand up. I believe that, “When good people do nothing, bad people can do bad things.” Those few that are willing to stand up to evil by themselves are amazing people but are usually punished for it. That is why I believe that most don’t stand up for their morals and fight evil. Evil will always be present in the world because everyone is capable of being evil.