Audio Books →Making Monsters The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09MGBB68S | 2021 | 9 hours and 46 minutes |MP3|M4B | 268 MB
"I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it." So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their echoes in accounts of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. How do some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters, and therefore easy to kill? In Making Monsters, David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization.