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Life is about survival. The stronger lives. Who strikes first, survives. As long as you are the stronger, you may get away, unpunished, with whatever you have done to the weak. The fact that the dehumanization of the victims dehumanizes – morally devastates – their victimizers is dismissed as a minor irritant; that is, if it has not been passed over in silence. What counts is to get on top and to stay on top. Surviving – staying alive – is a value apparently unscathed and untarnished by the inhumanity of a life dedicated to survival.

Zygmunt Bauman
1925 - 2017