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Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve
I don't think it's wrong to call someone who blows up other people or beheads people on film - rats or whatever, I think that's pretty justified  |
Yeah I don't disagree with that, I've called them worse myself, and I think we're free to call them/treat them however we choose because they've lost any right to be treated with respect. That's my gut feeling towards them. But it's still quite thought provoking to consider that actually, in a general sense, by dehumanizing people like that we're ignoring the fact that these are capabilities that we all have, biologically. I suppose dehumanizing them is like an instinctive thing, because we obviously don't want to have any kind of association with them, and if want to kill them, we have to think of them as less than human, less than us, in order to justify those feelings to ourselves. But this in essence, is the same as their instinctive feelings towards us, which is something I'd never really considered before.