来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第15集》

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  Denigration of others. There's a lot of ways to make other people matter less.
  对别人的诋毁 有很多方法使别人不那么重要
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  So, this is the flip side. The way to do terrible things--
  这是对立面 做坏事的方法
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  One way to do terrible things is to lose yourself
  做坏事的其中一种方法是放弃自我
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  so you're not an individual anymore but another way to do terrible things is
  也就是自己不再是个体 另一种做坏事的方法就是
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  so that the person you're doing it to isn't an individual.
  使做坏事的对象不再是个体
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  How do you do that? Well, you have psychological distance or physical distance.
  怎么做到呢 你有心理距离或物理距离
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  I'm more likely to kill you if you're very far away than if you're close.
  如果你离得我更远 我更可能杀你
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  I don't--I could describe you and start to think about you not as a person
  我可以描述你 开始思考你不是一个人
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  and language can be used for this.
  其中语言起到了作用
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  Instead of people you could use terms like "Cargo,"
  用"货"来指代人
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  instead of murder, extermination.
  称谋杀为消灭
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  Humor is very powerful in denigrating and demoting people.
  幽默在诋毁和贬低他人中起到了很大作用