The Ugly /dark side of humans.
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Re: The Ugly /dark side of humans.
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The line between humanity and monstrosity is a really thin one. One change in the way of life and people turn to savages in a blink of an eye. So sad,Julie Petitbon wrote: ↑04 Apr 2020, 09:20This is a really good point. It is disturbing to think about the ugliness of people who can commit atrocious acts upon others. The torturous acts performed in the book are cruel and dehumanizing. Mason and Dennison trying to dehumanize Kaling was pretty ugly and disturbing.Arimart99 wrote: ↑03 Apr 2020, 19:39 The ugliest thing is not necessarily the acts themselves, but the mindset of the people performing them. Sadly, the human mind can be such an ugly thing, and it's something that we've seen throughout our own history. One of the things that grossed me out was what they did to Kalin to dehumanize him.
we are always eager to tap to that dark side of ours.
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I agree. The mindset of the scientists allowed them to be cruel day after day without giving it much thought, and it only escalated over time.Arimart99 wrote: ↑03 Apr 2020, 19:39 The ugliest thing is not necessarily the acts themselves, but the mindset of the people performing them. Sadly, the human mind can be such an ugly thing, and it's something that we've seen throughout our own history. One of the things that grossed me out was what they did to Kalin to dehumanize him.
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yeah I agree, that was one of the most terrifying parts!rjohnston815 wrote: ↑23 May 2020, 23:01 I thought the initial action of deciding that Taylor could just be changed into a Project was the ultimate evil... the unfortunate reality is that the belief that Projects weren't "real" people led to the other stuff... the decision to make Taylor "not real" was the real injustice...
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During an interview, the late Oskar Groening, who was an administrative assistant at Auschwitz, said that the soldiers were trained to believe that the Jews were quite literally lesser beings. He felt that without this idea being implanted, the Final Solution would have been impossible.
The story draws a lot of parallels to the dehumanizing treatment of the prisoners in places such as Auschwitz. I feel that the darkest aspect of the story is the fact that it is possible that the majority of people would be capable of committing acts of egregious cruelty on their fellows if they truly believed that another person was inferior to them on some level.
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I agree with you. For me, this was the most horrifying aspect of the way the Projects were treated by Dennison.leximutia wrote: ↑03 Apr 2020, 18:52 Warning, as this is a sensitive topic, but I was personally absolutely horrified at the fact that Dennison assaulted Tau -- a literal child. This is not pertaining to the pain acclimation sessions, something else. Finding this out later, when Kata explicitly mentions it was extremely upsetting and only solidified my severe dislike of Dennison.