Making Monsters

It is tempting to believe that dehumanization is an excess of rhetoric—that no one thinks his foe is truly monstrous. David Livingstone Smith argues otherwise, showing that when we dehumanize our enemies, we consider them both human and not. Dehumanization is a genuine psychological response to political manipulation, with harrowing consequences.

Este tentant sa credem ca dezumanizarea este un exces de retorica - ca nimeni nu crede ca dusmanul sau este cu adevarat monstruos. David Livingstone Smith argumenteaza altfel, aratand ca atunci cand ne dezumanizam dusmanii, ii consideram atat umani, cat si nu.