Ask most Jews if they believe that people are basically good and you are likely to get a positive response.
That is why if Jews are familiar
with anything from the diary of Anne Frank, the most widely read book to come out of the Holocaust, it is her comment that “in spite of everything I still believe that people are basically good at heart.”
Unfortunately — and I mean unfortunately with all my heart because I wish people were basically good — this teenage girl was wrong. She engaged in wishful thinking, as young people are often wont to do.
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