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This is one kind of dehumanizing thinking, and it’s a belief category that can eventually lead to genocide when it becomes widespread. We have many examples wit
by pavlov 3y ago
This is one kind of dehumanizing thinking, and it’s a belief category that can eventually lead to genocide when it becomes widespread. We have many examples within the past century with death counts in the millions.
- dsego 3y agoDoesn't that kind of prove the point? Masses become involved in a mass delusion, an egregore, a social contagion if you will, people start basically behaving like bots. It's like some outside force takes over. I'm speaking about the ones committing the genocide in this case. I understand the danger of dehumanizing people though. Tbh, being a kid during the war in ex-yu I am also still very disturbed with how little it took and how easy it was for some to do horrible things, which is probably also why I consider some of those people lacking something within, or at least not being fully self-aware beings during those times.
- dingnuts 3y ago> consider some of those people lacking something within, If it was only so easy, that those who were evil could just be separated from the rest of us, but alas, the line that separates good and evil cuts through the heart of every person Paraphrasing Solzhenitsyn, of course..
- mistermann 3y agoCategorizing, reducing, and dismissing things is also something, which may also have negative consequences. There is also no shortage of examples of this phenomenon, some people even believe the whole world runs on it.