Face-to-face animosity rarely extends into mass murder.
Evidence
In more cases than not, it would resist being pushed beyond the line drawn by that elementary responsibility for the other which is inextricably interwoven in human proximity, in ‘living with others’. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 528
Categorization
- XREF: The claim that personal hatred cannot scale to genocide is the pivot on which Bauman’s whole argument turns — echoing Levinas and informing later work on bureaucracy’s moral distance. — connects to: Mass murder required neutralizing proximity-based moral drives. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 528; Morality dies when social distance replaces proximity, enabling mass murder — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 517
Related
- Morality dies when social distance replaces proximity, enabling mass murder (similarity 0.86)
- Mass murder required neutralizing proximity-based moral drives. (similarity 0.86)
- Proximity grounds moral responsibility while abstract categories remain morally neutral. (similarity 0.83)
- Moral inhibitions do not act at a distance and depend on proximity (similarity 0.82)
- Total social mapping enables obliterating people without any trace (similarity 0.79)
- Moral responsibility to others shrinks and vanishes with increasing distance (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Morality dies when social distance replaces proximity, enabling mass murder
#corroborates(0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 517 - Mass murder required neutralizing proximity-based moral drives.
#expands(0.82) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 528