Doddy writes:
This didn't affect their conscience (a Nazi would still have been moral towards fellow Germans), but stopped it from being applied to the minorities (Jewish, gays etc).
In essence, it's the reverse of animal rights activists, who convince themselves that animals are closer to human than they really are, so are worth protecting.
The inverse of your final analogy seems truer to me. Just as the Nazis regarded the Jews et al. as nonhuman, enabling inhuman treatment, most people deny our commonality with other animals, enabling inhumane treatment.
So far, life seems rare in this universe, and all of it worth protecting against cruelty.
Edited by Omnivorous, : No reason given.
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