Dehumanization causes perpetrators to perceive victims as nonhuman and therefore not entitled to moral obligation

Evidence

Dehumanization increases instrumental violence, but not moral violence (PNAS / NIH)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Accusations of extreme wrongdoing can dehumanize scapegoats. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 82; Participants who witnessed an exclusion game judged the victim as less human on both Human Nature and Human Uniqueness domains. — Observing Social Exclusion Leads to Dehumanizing the Victim; Dehumanizers make targets appear deserving of abuse and never entitled to humane social treatment. — Dehumanization of Whistleblowers and Scapegoats common Narcissistic Abuse tactics (+31 more)

Broader Connections

• Denying shared humanity creates non-relation rather than strangeness within a group #expands (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 400