Again, we see the need to consider dehumanization from the other direction to the customary one in moral philosophy: as a psychological manifestation of a sense of illicit entitlement to be the observer or the judge, or an object of care and admiration, rather than suspicion, contempt, hostility, or indifference. Such a sense can be highly dangerous for those who are held to be looking the wrong way at people in the grip of what may amount to a persecution complex.
