“He’s not an animal,” Norma said. “How can you say that?” “Because he’s not. Were his parents both four-legged beings of some kind? Or were they humans? Then he’s human. People love to do that. Revoke other people’s humanity. Before we give people the death penalty, we do that. Get up in court and say he’s not even human. He’s a monster or an animal. Because if we admit he’s a human then it’s a lot harder to say ‘Yeah, go ahead and kill him now.’ In your case I can understand how it might be comforting to want to think there’s no such thing as a human being who would do something as terrible
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