(August 13, 2015 at 3:35 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 13, 2015 at 3:19 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: In this sort of case, though, I suspect that very often the cops do not think of black people as being fully people. More like animals, or evil demons, or something subhuman. If they did not think such types of things, they would treat black people like people.
I have to wonder if there's a connection between ^^^ this ^^^ and the apparent increase in militarization of police forces - that is, if it's something in their training.
Probably. It is common in warfare to demonize the enemy, to consider them subhuman. They are easier to kill that way.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
