Humankind’s inhumanity to humankind, is the very reason why we have so much hatred, discord, civil unrest, and warring of all types. So too, governments the world over, have made the same mistake again and again, in which, they encourage and then compel their people to fight the other, because the other is being sold to them at that instance as being “less than.” After all, it’s never the easiest of things, nor should it be easy, to kill another human being, or to annihilate another civilization, when the perception is that the other is just about the same as those that bring actual war upon it. Rather, governments make it their point to demonize the other, and essentially to make the other to be perceived as being subhuman, so as to thereby have the other to be basically looked upon as nothing much more than an animal.
Those that insist that the other be treated as if they are an animal, and thus discount the others’ humanity almost completely, are going to be quite capable of bringing all sorts of injustices and harms upon the other -- because that which is an animal in actuality, is that which we will often use as a beast of burden, and at worse, as something to kill for sport or to nourish ourselves upon. To be perceived by society and its governance as an animal, is to live within a construct, in which those that fully believe that only their people are the actual human beings, will thus then have these same people control nearly every aspect of how that “animal’ is treated, of which, when that “animal” no longer has any utility, it will be erased – and if that “animal” was never perceived to have utility in the first place, it will be destroyed, from the get-go.
So too, those that are human beings, that are thus treated as animals, relentlessly, are going to be susceptible to taking on animalistic traits, for by virtue of having their humanity ignored or suppressed, they will thus find that in order to maintain their existence, they are going to have to adapt to the situation, at hand. Which means, that those that are being treated as animals, are going to have a very strong tendency, as well as certainly some very valid reasons, to accord to those that are its oppressors, no real quarter, whatsoever. That is to say, they will see those that are committing all sorts of injustices against them, as having no legitimate right to be accorded any human respect, whatsoever, which will thus lead to all sorts of stratagems to get back at those that are their tyrants.
In sum, those that treat others with respect, will often be accorded respect, in return; whereas, those that treat others as subhuman and look upon them as animals, are going to find that those that have had their humanity discounted or ignored, and treat the other in a very disrespectful manner, have by these actions and by their attitude, truly opened up a Pandora’s box and will thereby surely reap the whirlwind that thus will ensue.