John Rabe allied himself with a grotesque organization of racial superiority, but when people were being slaughtered around him he risked his life to save strangers of other races, then and later. Which was the deeper part of his heart?
I hope we can honor that. We seem to be losing the capacity to honor--except, ironically, along racial lines.
I wonder how I'll act when my test comes.
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In The Empire Strikes Back I classify Captain Lorth Needa as heroic simply because he knowingly and willingly lays down his life to protect his crew from Vader's wrath.
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