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LizW

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Sat Nov-15-03 11:44 AM
Response to Reply #14

20. dehumanization is almost always required

before humans can be convinced to kill other humans.

It's even true of government sanctioned killing. I attended a seminar years ago on defending capital murder cases. One segment, taught by a former prosecutor, dealt with the language and images prosecutors use to dehumanize the defendant so that the jury will impose the death penalty. The main objective for the prosecutor is to make the defendant a "monster". A jury can and will kill a "monster", where they will not kill a human being.

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