Less than human why we demean enslave and exterminate others smith david livingstone isbn 9780312532727 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Its an eye opening study of the roles biology psychology and culture play in allowing humans to override their moral objections to killing or maiming their own kind by defining others as something less than human and thereby deserving their fate. A well written study of dehumanization and the possible reasons why we demean enslave and exterminate our fellow human beings mr livingstone smith explains his hypotheses by taking us from prehistoric times and cavemen to our modern wars and clearly explains our ability in convincing ourselves to dehumanize fellow human beings with less than human methods the book is rather pedantic and is written in a style of an academic paper which can be distracting however the concepts that . Human beings have a tendency to regard members of their own kind as less than human this tendency has made atrocities like the holocaust the genocide in rwanda and the slave trade possible and