- Cultural distance, such as racial and ethnic differences, which permit the killer to dehumanize the victim - Moral distance, which takes into consideration the kind of intense belief in moral superiority and vengeful/vigilante actions associated with many civil wars - Social distance, which considers the impact of a lifetime of practice in thinking of a particular class as less than human in a socially stratified environment - Mechanical distance, which includes the sterile Nintendo-game unreality of killing through a TV screen, a thermal sight, a sniper sight, or some other kind of
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