Theres one collective of women near the end who decide to do something. When the woman walks over to talk to the abuser: she offers her help. She doesnt even -talk- to the man being abused in front of her. Then when their little collective calls the cops two people are fighting on a bench. They stood there and watched, and didnt see the man respond -at all-, how exactly is he participating in a fight? How about this: how about we all follow the rule of law which states at no time may you commit battery against another person except in self defense. What about that? Or hey, heres an idea: what about the rules we all learned in pre-k: KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF. One of the passers by even cheered her on. Why? Simple - it was a man being abused. What they need to do is run the exact same experiment - with two women. See what happens then. See if someone steps in. Well see if they assume the woman being abused had done something wrong. All the participants assumed the man had done something to offend her. Also: Id like to point something out. This is the societal zeitgeist: this is how men are viewed. That if something is being done to a man by a woman, despite if its illegal or immoral, or unethical - they deserve it. This example, is absolutely in line with Michelle Maiese, graduate student of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder and is a part of the research staff at the Conflict Research Consortium. In her essay “What it Means to Dehumanize” she wrote: “Psychologically, it is necessary to categorize one’s enemy as sub-human in order to legitimize increased violence or justify the violation of basic human rights. Moral exclusion reduces restraints against harming or exploiting certain groups of people. In severe cases, dehumanization makes the violation of generally accepted norms of behavior regarding one’s fellow man seem reasonable, or even necessary.” Philip George Zimbardo, psychologist, professor emeritus at Stanford University lucifereffect/dehumanization.htm “At the core of evil is the process of dehumanization by which certain other people or collectives of them, are depicted as less than human, as non-comparable in humanity or personal dignity to those who do the labeling. Prejudice employs negative stereotypes in images or verbally abusive terms to demean and degrade the objects of its narrow view of superiority over these allegedly inferior persons. Discrimination involves the actions taken against those others based on the beliefs and emotions generated by prejudiced perspectives. Dehumanization is one of the central processes in the transformation of ordinary, normal people into indifferent or even wanton perpetrators of evil. Dehumanization is like a “cortical cataract” that clouds one’s thinking and fosters the perception that other people are less than human. It makes some people come to see those others as enemies deserving of torment, torture, and even annihilation.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:05:29 +0000
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