generalisation-precedes-violence

# Generalisation precedes violence You have to generalise someone to kill them. Violence requires the particular person to be replaced by a category, because faces resist what labels permit. This makes abstraction a moral technology: escalating category-talk about people is upstream preparation for harm, and attention to the particular is a form of nonviolence. Related: [[the-scapegoat]], [[the-maps-we-build-become-the-world]] Rests on: [[language-was-the-first-act-of-separation]]