Can one event that took place be compared to other ones, because they touch upon the issue of genocide and mass murder? Or is such a comparison too risky or painful, because there are many different elements? Perhaps it doesn’t make sense to compare different fears, traumas and anxieties, but instead the silence of the world should be compared.
Professor Michman stressed that we only know of the times when education has failed; many similar situations may have already been prevented. Comparison, however, requires looking at methodologies. Michman noted that historians look at the peculiarities of cases, but lawyers and social scientists do not.