When it has been demonstrated over and over again, how little they think of anyone beneath them.

  • HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    Because, for all of the awfulness they bring to the rest of us, they are human.

    Humans who the other humans desperately need to be stripped of their wealth and power, and for whom the doing of which might offer them some small chance to save themselves from the yawning void of more more moremoremoremoremoremore

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      Yeah we humanize them because it’s important to remember that essentially anyone that ends up in their position will behave similarly. They aren’t demons, they’re humans. We should stop putting people in their position.

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      This. As soon as we treat them as “only monsters,” we start to think that “regular humans” aren’t capable of monstrous things.