dehumanization theme
We are made to ponder what treatments are so shameful and debasing that they should be prohibited. Such treatment have been used as early steps in stirring up ethnic hatred and may lead to repression and genocide.
8 total · 1 choice · 4 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blackmirror3x05 | choice | The army found a way to use technology to directly dehumanize the enemy by making them look like monsters to the soldiers. |
| movie: 984: Prisoner of the Future (1982) | major | The Warden would only address Tom Weston as Prisoner 984, among other things, in a systematic effort to break him down. |
| movie: Modern Times (1936) | major | the initial factory part showed how the capitalist system made factory owners treat workers as components in a machine to be optimized |
| tng6x11 | major | Picard dehumanised by Madred |
| tos3x19 | major | Troglytes |
| movie: Trancers 5: Sudden Deth (1994) | minor | The trancer Prospero accused Jack of having internalized that trancers are subhuman in order to rationalize his role in life as a trancer hunter. |
| tng3x22 | minor | Fajo dissolves Data's uniform in a failed attempt to humiliate him |
| tos3x12 | minor | Parmen humiliated poor Spock by making him sing like an idiot |