but also part of the solution
whenever you dehumanize others, you also lose a bit of your own humanity.
any human, no matter how much you diverge from them, has something in common with you. and when, for whatever reason and in whatever proportion, you don’t see them, their experiences, beliefs and thought process as valuable as your own, you dissociate yourself from the part of yourself that you recognize in them.
whenever you stop criticizing a system that benefits you, be it a societal structure or a system of thinking, but does so by dehumanizing others in some shape or form, you are also losing a bit of your humanity.
whenever you look at another human being, in the present or past, and can’t even imagine possibly holding their views and beliefs, you are inherently categorizing them as inferior — be it intellectually, morally, spiritually or whatever it may be. keep doing that for long enough and you’ll keep chipping at your soul until there’s no humanity left.
this has already happened to most of humanity. you are born and instantly is being told to adhere to an inherently inhumane society. and you keep going.
each day we keep working at our jobs and maintaining this world working as it is, we are collectively working towards the destruction of the human soul.