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The True Cause Of Cruelty By Alex Lickerman

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The spirit of abstraction is the practice of conceiving of people as functions rather than human beings. An article, “The True Cause Of Cruelty” by Alex Lickerman, supports the idea that the spirit of abstraction is a part of human nature. A document, A Class Divided also provides evidence to support this theory. A fundamental point in the spirit of abstraction entails reducing someone’s humanity and turning them into a function. In A Class Divided, African americans were inferior during the time it was conducted. This was one of the reasons for doing this experiment in the first place. African Americans were treated horribly just because they had some different physical characteristics. The teacher in the documentary wanted the students to

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