Comparing victims to animals makes their murder easier
Evidence
Dehumanization is when one group treats another group as second-class citizens. Members of a persecuted group may be compared with animals, parasites, insects or diseases. When a group of people is thought of as “less than human” it is easier for the group in control to murder them. — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 14
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Comparing victims to vermin and disease makes killing them psychologically easier — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 2; Extermination stage killing requires that killers see victims as less than fully human — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 8; Dehumanizing victims as animals makes killing psychologically easier for perpetrators — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2449 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Dehumanizing victims as animals makes killing psychologically easier for perpetrators
#expands(0.97) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2449 - Seeing victims as fellow humans can override group-sanctioned killing orders
#corroborates(0.85) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 652 - The term extermination reflects killers’ belief victims are not fully human
#exemplifies(0.82) — Gregory H. Stanton, Ten Stages of Genocide, 16 - Cruelty to animals may underwrite cruelty to dehumanized humans
#corroborates(0.78) - Viewing dignity as socially bestowed makes killing wrongdoers easier to justify
#expands(0.76) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1892 - Victims’ aggression gets reframed as the victim’s own deviance
#corroborates(0.75) - Targeted violence against blamed officials is morally easier than killing indiscriminate innocents
#qualifies(0.72)