The Psychological Processes of Violence

There are two distinct psychological processes. One might be a process of dehumanization where we don't see victims as fellow human beings and therefore we don't care about their welfare. The people who engage in direct violence, if we think about ethnic cleansing or genocide, my argument would be that they weren't necessarily dehumanizing terrorists. Or at least that dehumanization wasn't really driving their actions on the front end. Where dehumanization was important for those neutral third parties who you just wanted to kind of stay out of the way and not get involved and not help.