Dehumanization

[BornInMarch]

One thing that gets my blood boiling is when groups of human beings are treated as though they are less than human or as though their lives lack value. While most atrocities (such as ISIS’s acts in the middle east) are only committed by a few and reviled by the rest, there are some that are widespread and whose victims are all but ignored.

While I have gone into lengh in previous threads about the less-than-humane aspects of the American Prison System, that is only one example. If you disagreed with my previous threads on that, don’t bring it up here: I will not tolerate derailment.

Another example of dehumanization is the treatment of the mentally disabled. People with mental disabilities such as autism or down’s syndrome are treated differently than mentally healthy people, oftentimes being viewed as burdensome. Many children who develop mental disabilities in the womb are aborted (some countries where abortion is illegal under most circumstances make exception in cases of mental health), and even today there are still people who think Eugenics (a barbaric practice by which the disabled or deformed are sterilized or outright murdered) should be brought back. But the mention of abortion brings up another group that is dehumanized …

Because unborn children are unable to speak for themselves, and because they are inconvenient (even if a temporary inconvenience), society has arbitrarily decided it is acceptable to murder them at will. As of 2013, Nicaragua and Chile are the only country where Abortion is Illegal under all circumstances. Abortion is like slavery in that it is a dehumanizing and cruel practice, it has been around longer than it had any business existing, and after it is abolished civilization will look back on us as primitive and cruel for practicing it.

Feel free to discuss these injustices, or to bring up other ones.

 

[Sarcelle]

Things that get my hackles up is the presence of human trafficking and the treatment of third world workers in the Gulf countries and the more prosperous East Asian countries.

 

[Jerusha]

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[MarcoPolo]

Dehumanization of the victim is a psychological defense mechanism by the perpetrator. So pro-abortion mentality denies the humanity in the womb in order to justify killing it. Same with historical groups that kill other victims as Christians, Jews, mentally handicapped, etc… One of the examples of this I think of is in the movie The Silence of the Lambs. The fictional killer exhibits traits from real psychology when he keeps referring to his victims as “it.”

 

[Vic_Taltrees_UK]

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Another example of dehumanization is the treatment of the mentally disabled. People with mental disabilities such as autism or down’s syndrome are treated differently than mentally healthy people, oftentimes being viewed as burdensome. …

My biggest answer to healing prayer (which was said at a gospel camp, and where we weren’t prayed for individually either) came when the writings of Donna Willams crossed my path from which I understand my autism spectrum condition.

Aided by research of records by a relative, I have done fruitful meditation on given shame patterns in my family background. Not only do we have learning differences on all sides (and many successful people) but sudden switches from poverty to riches and back again, we have broken families and early bereavements in successive generations, a more than average amount of changes of region and country, lots of changes of religion when it wasn’t fashionable, church authorities that forgot to catechise us, wrong ethnic elements, a “dim view” taken by some other family members on various scores, some teachers that devalued our potential, unfashionable illnesses, etc.

God will specially act through the “stupid” people of the world! (Often, very quietly.)

 

[mikekle]

Things that get my hackles up is the presence of human trafficking and the treatment of third world workers in the Gulf countries and the more prosperous East Asian countries.

This upsets me as well, but I think its far more ‘productive’ to me angry at the ‘consumer’ in this regard, the people who traffic other humans are only doing so because there is a demand for it, if there was no demand for 12 yr old prostitutes and cheap slave labor, there would be no need for human trafficking.LE agencies constantly investigating and trying to bring down these criminal groups are spinning their wheels, soon as they arrest one group, another will spring up to take their place, its all supply and demand.

Same goes for abortion, if there were no women willing to murder their unborn baby, no need for the abortion industry.

Maybe instead of trying to go after the people who are in these industries, it would be better to approach it from the ‘buyers’ side, getting rid of their customers would be bad news for the suppliers.