Dehumanizing the enemy shrinks the torturer’s own conception of humanity.

Evidence

His view of the Islamic enemy demands a dehumanization that, in his willingness to employ “enhanced interrogation techniques,” reflects his own limited conceptions of what is human and inhuman. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 408

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Suppressing conscience in brutal counterinsurgency leads directly to the adoption of torture.; Genocidal perpetrators must first hate their own humanity; Intense hatred of foes destroys the shared humanity that would evoke compassion (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Suppressing conscience in brutal counterinsurgency leads directly to the adoption of torture.; Genocidal perpetrators must first hate their own humanity; Intense hatred of foes destroys the shared humanity that would evoke compassion (+5 more)