What event was worse the holocaust or slavery?

Answer 1

I believe that they were both equally bad.. being killed or being a slave are two of the worse things in the world. However, it is important to look at the events after.. after the holocaust ended.. Jews have rarely gone through discrimination and many of their generations have lived here and developed very good lives for the most part. After slavery, blacks were for the most part still oppressed by the government. Although they were free, they still weren't equal.. they had the Jim Crow Laws, and Segregation all over the country. Blacks were constantly victimized, killed, and tortured. These events have left a lasting impression on the black community. Many blacks have figured "the white man's holding me down." which has caused many black's to underacheieve and struggle in present america. So while I believe both events were equally bad.. slavery left a lasting impression which still exist today

Answer 2

The question is a bit anachronistic; we are passing judgment on events from the past with our morals today. With that in mind:

1) Slavery: I assume you mean slavery as practiced on the North American continent, and again, I assume you mean the practice of buying slaves in Africa rather than the indentured servitude that sometimes ended in slavery. Many people saw slavery as an ideal way to protect and civilize those they saw as primitive. Many people did not see anything morally wrong with slavery.

2) Holocaust: this is not quite so far back. As opposed to slavery, those perpetrating the Holocaust knew what they were doing, and the morality of the day condemned their actions. The Holocaust was purposely hidden as well as possible, because they knew the universal condemnation that would ensue.

From this viewpoint, the Holocaust is definitely the worse of the two. Owning a slave was considered socially acceptable, as horrible as that sounds today. The systematic and thorough extermination of every man, woman, and child of a race has been unacceptable for centuries.

Answer 3

Tough call. 15 million Jews were rounded up, starved, tortured and killed in the Holocaust, but that only lasted about 10 years. Slavery was commonplace for over 70 years in the U.S., and the slaves had a lifetime of beatings, maltreatment, malnourishment, etc. Guess it all depends on your perspective. No question that they were both terrible, but one could argue that being sold into slavery as a child and spending the next 30-40 years as a slave until you died a premature death could be worse than being in a concentration camp for 3-4 years. Which would YOU want?

Answer 4

hmmm...

well the above answers seem reasonable..i mean are you comparing it due to it influence or number of death or even its moral implications? what relative reference are you wanting it compared to?

if its deaths...neither one of these two events beat the loss of life during the Stalin era in the soviet union or chairman Mao time of cultural revolution..the deaths in both country's from starvation alone beat out what happened during the holocaust. not to say the holocaust wasn't significant...but it just doesn't have as a high a death toll as these two events or even what is estimated as the result of the two great plagues in the middle ages.

slavery has been practiced and is still being practiced for as long as man has been keeping some form of record. is there one period of slavery you are interested to compare with the holocaust? maybe you do need to refine the question a little.

Answer 5

Holocaust

Answer 6

You should have phrased your question: Which was worse, the end of the holocaust or the end of slavery.

Answer 7

they were both terrible, terrible things. in some ways, one could argue that because slavery was a whole lifetime of misery, whereas the holocause "only" lasted so many years, slavery was worse. however, on the other hand, so many people died during the holocaust. it depends on your viewpoint, but both were still pretty horrible.

Answer 8

Holocaust was final. People were put to death. Slavery was bad enough but people (once they reached their final destination) had a reasonable chance to survive (and sometimes escape to a better world).

Answer 9

i would have to say the halocause if it weren't for that there would be no israel. slavory was horrrid but not something only practiced in the united states only. it is still going on to this day and in america it is called corporations and minimum wage. but thanks to the zionists now we have palestinians being subjected to things in life that no human should ever endure. a real jew who follows the torah would never have supported israel which angers me because a lot of the jews who were killed in ww2 were good jews i think the zionists should have been the ones gassed.

Answer 10

the holocaust.I'm saying this from a christain view.I think the holocaust because they killed people.Sometimes.They put ramdom people in the gas chambers.when they were dead they would bery them into a pit with 100-800 people.I read a book for school . it made me angry to here what the nazis did to inocent poeple