Physical segregation severs communication needed for moral recognition

Evidence

Concentration completes this process of distantiation. The victimized group and the rest do not meet any more, their life-processes to not cross, communication grinds to a halt, whatever happens to one of the now segregated groups does not concern the other, has no meaning easy to translate into the vocabulary of human intercourse. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 543

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names ‘distantiation’ as a core stage mechanism — conceptual vocabulary for how spatial separation underwrites moral exclusion.
• XREF: connects to: Moral inhibitions do not act at a distance and depend on proximity — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 546; Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy; Moral inhibition is neutralized by making victims remote and invisible — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 550 (+3 more)

Related

• Spiritual isolation precedes and enables physical removal of a targeted group (similarity 0.82)
• The victim’s isolation is produced by the tormentors’ shared action, not physical distance (similarity 0.81)
• Moral inhibitions do not act at a distance and depend on proximity (similarity 0.81)
• Morality dies when social distance replaces proximity, enabling mass murder (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Moral inhibition is neutralized by making victims remote and invisible #corroborates (0.90) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 550
• Moral inhibitions do not act at a distance and depend on proximity #corroborates (0.88) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 546
• Social distance maintained by etiquette or replaced by spatial segregation undergirds hierarchy #expands (0.80)
• Moral trust requires temporally stable social contexts to operate #corroborates (0.78)
• The friend-enemy distinction dissolves only through mutual recognition within shared space #corroborates (0.72)