Why Not Kill Them All?: The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political MurderPrinceton University Press, 2 sept. 2008 - 288 pagini Genocide, mass murder, massacres. The words themselves are chilling, evoking images of the slaughter of countless innocents. What dark impulses lurk in our minds that even today can justify the eradication of thousands and even millions of unarmed human beings caught in the crossfire of political, cultural, or ethnic hostilities? This question lies at the heart of Why Not Kill Them All? Cowritten by historical sociologist Daniel Chirot and psychologist Clark McCauley, the book goes beyond exploring the motives that have provided the psychological underpinnings for genocidal killings. It offers a historical and comparative context that adds up to a causal taxonomy of genocidal events. Rather than suggesting that such horrors are the product of abnormal or criminal minds, the authors emphasize the normality of these horrors: killing by category has occurred on every continent and in every century. But genocide is much less common than the imbalance of power that makes it possible. Throughout history human societies have developed techniques aimed at limiting intergroup violence. Incorporating ethnographic, historical, and current political evidence, this book examines the mechanisms of constraint that human societies have employed to temper partisan passions and reduce carnage. Might an understanding of these mechanisms lead the world of the twenty-first century away from mass murder? Why Not Kill Them All? makes clear that there are no simple solutions, but that progress is most likely to be made through a combination of international pressures, new institutions and laws, and education. If genocide is to become a grisly relic of the past, we must fully comprehend the complex history of violent conflict and the struggle between hatred and tolerance that is waged in the human heart. |
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... Enemy Part of the Family 103 Establishing Codes of Warfare and Exchange to Limit Violence 111 Are Rules of Exogamy, Codes of Honor, and Potlatching Still Relevant? 116 The Mercantile Compulsion 121 Morality and Modesty: Rejecting ...
... enemy group might endanger the survival of one's own group. The most intractable cause of genocidal killings emerges when competing groups—ethnic, religious, class, or ideological—feel that the very presence of the other, of the enemy ...
... enemy is not totally destroyed it will strike back. The worst kind of fear is that somehow an enemy group's very survival on earth is so polluting and dangerous that it needs to be entirely wiped out. Hitler believed this about Jews ...
... programs to kill homosexuals, the mentally deficient, and Gypsies, though none with the single-minded determination with which he pursued those whom he considered his “race's” most dangerous enemy (Burleigh and Why Genocides? 15.
... enemy (Burleigh and Wippermann 1991). It hardly matters how correct Hitler's perception was, or Stalin's, or that of any of the other perpetrators of such acts. The designated victims were viewed as politically dangerous, or at the very ...
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The Psychological Foundations of Genocidal Killing | 51 |
Why Is Limited Warfare More Common Than Genocide? | 95 |
Strategies to Decrease the Chances of Mass Political Murder in Our Time | 149 |
Our Question Answered | 211 |
References | 219 |
Index | 249 |
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