Min Jin Lee - We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently ...

Min Jin Lee Zitate

We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one North Korean, for example. The rest of them, we don't know - but it makes it very easy to bomb North Korea if we pretend they're all one person. Literature makes it harder to dehumanize people in this way.

Min Jin Lee

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Wir sind so bereit, die gesamte Bevölkerung zu entmenschlichen, damit wir unser Leben bequem mitmachen können. Wir kennen zum Beispiel genau einen Nordkoreaner. Die anderen kennen wir nicht - aber es ist sehr einfach, Nordkorea zu bombardieren, wenn wir so tun, als wären sie alle eine Person. Literatur macht es schwieriger, Menschen auf diese Weise zu entmenschlichen.

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