Normal people are capable of doing horrendous acts exactly like in the lottery and in "The Perils of Indifference". Those people that say that they them self could not commit such an act like what is mentioned in "The Lottery" or what happened during the holocaust are one too naive two too kind (in that case should have already lost their life) and three they are lying and fake and in that case they would be one of the people that would start something that would be seen as horrendous.
In the lottery the people of the village gather annually for a lottery which intern chooses one person from one family to be killed just because they were the unlucky one that chose wrong. In this case the unlucky soul that picks marked ballot gets killed by the towns people. This was seen as a horrible act of cruelty and inhumanity by my English class which is a normal response and there for perfectly acceptable, but then the question was asked could you ever do that and the answer was no never i cant even imagine doing that wrong answer. Every human being has the capability of doing acts of extreme cruelty if provoked or convinced that it is done for the "right reason". In the lottery the people have been convinced that that was the way it was, the way it is and the way it will always be. So even when the mother was the unfortunate one to get the marked ballot her kid was the first one to throw a stone at his mother. This shows the dedication to the cause even if its the wrong one.
In the speach "The Perils of Indifference" the speaker goes on about how bad the holocaust was which it was and how the allied leaders choose to not go out of their way to slow or stop the killings at the concentration camps by not having any bombs dropped on the gass chamers or the rail way line that lead to the death camps.
