来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第15集》

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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
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  When you start laughing at somebody you think of them as less of a person
  当你嘲笑某人 你会慢慢不再把他们当人看
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  and we'll get to that a little bit more when we talk about laughter.
  我们讨论笑主题时会再提到这一点
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  You could take away their names. One of the more interesting things
  你可以把他们的名字去掉 一件有趣的事是
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  in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is a very interesting right.
  在联合国人权宣言中有个很有趣的权利