Idea: deplorability index for subcultures. Your tribe's score = 100*(max number of people considered subhuman by some member)/7 billion
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historically it hasn't been a static figure e.g. french revolution, communism
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don't get the point. Is it absolute power corrupts absolutely so super dictator thinks practically everybody is subhuman?
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I agree the tendency to view parts of humanity as subhuman is a feature of post 1700 modernity if that's what you mean
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I don't know if the tendency to dehumanize was ever not there, but the tech to scale it certainly disrupted the industry around then
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anyhow, sociopath dictators are not in tribes practically by definition so the power thing is only a wrinkle on the index
what changed at least as much was the idea of "human". Individualism.
the word for "from our tribe" may be translated as "human being". Classification changed from ethnic to ideological.
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