benjohn on Nostr: npub1g0tuf…3tvm4 I apologise for finding the need to respond – I think the ...
npub1g0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msp3tvm4 (npub1g0t…tvm4) I apologise for finding the need to respond – I think the causality you imply is mistaken…
I don't think people naturally view other humans as inhuman. I contend they instead develop this belief – it is an effect rather than a cause.
A population under stress and in conflict with another population is required to treat the other population as less than themself.
To preserve their own sanity, they come to **view** the other population as less than themself, to justify their behaviour. The "othering" is a result of conflict rather than the cause (although I agree it can help perpetuate conflict and lends momentum to a conflict).
I think we need to solve where conflicts comes from in the first place.
I suspect the underlying cause of conflicts are almost always power and resource imbalances. And in particular, often **internal** power imbalance in a population (eg, a group of oligarchs, or a corrupt elite), rather than between societies.
This is probably a testable hypothesis?
I don't think people naturally view other humans as inhuman. I contend they instead develop this belief – it is an effect rather than a cause.
A population under stress and in conflict with another population is required to treat the other population as less than themself.
To preserve their own sanity, they come to **view** the other population as less than themself, to justify their behaviour. The "othering" is a result of conflict rather than the cause (although I agree it can help perpetuate conflict and lends momentum to a conflict).
I think we need to solve where conflicts comes from in the first place.
I suspect the underlying cause of conflicts are almost always power and resource imbalances. And in particular, often **internal** power imbalance in a population (eg, a group of oligarchs, or a corrupt elite), rather than between societies.
This is probably a testable hypothesis?