Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations - s[...]
What causes genocide? And why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted? "Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide" analyzes riveting interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to lay bare critical psychological f[...]