RE: I feel a bit relieved.
June 23, 2016 at 6:46 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2016 at 6:47 am by Cyberman.)
In fact, labelling people who commit atrocities - or who simply don't meet our standards - as "subhuman" legitimises, superficially, both their actions and society's treatment of them. "Yeah, this subhuman killed a bunch of people, but that's what subhumans do - he can't help it. And doing unspeakable things to him in the name of punishment is fully justified. After all, it's not as though we're punishing an actual person, now is it?"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
