Wiesel's observation cuts deeper than a simple emotion hierarchy—he's warning us that hatred, for all its toxicity, still requires *engagement* with another person, while indifference amounts to erasure. A parent who yells at a child has not abandoned them; a parent who stops noticing whether the child exists has. We see this in how despots fear dissidents far more than they fear dissenters; what truly threatens power is when nobody cares enough to oppose it, when the regime becomes invisible through universal apathy. The real danger, then, isn't that we'll love the wrong things, but that we'll gradually stop loving anything at all.